BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Schizostachyum
water solubles 0.61, alcohol solubles 3.24, ether solubles1.78, caustic soda solubles 20.40, pentosans 18.10, lignins
23.82 and cellulose 64.64.
SILVICULTURE AND MANAGEMENT
Architecture, growth pattern and population dynamics of this species have shown that regeneration period is about
15 years and is less than the fallow age (Rao and Ramakrishnan, 1987, 1988).
Vegetative propagation using one-year-old two-noded culm cuttings have been reported (Nath et al., 1986). Felling on
a selection basis at an interval of three years is recommended (Prasad, 1948).
PESTS AND DISEASES
Fusarium leaf spot caused by Fusarium pallidoroseum has been reported (Deka et al., 1990). This disease was first
observed in Assam in 1986.
USES
Used by the people of Garo Hills for carrying water and for making umbrellas. Generally used for making baskets, mats
and small boxes.
Schizostachyum flavescens
Schizostachyum flavescens (Kurz) Majumdar in Karthikeyan et al., Fl. Ind. Enum. Monocot. 281. 1989; Tewari,
Monogr. Bamboo 135.1992. (Fig. 81).
Cephalostachyum flavescens Kurz, J. Asiat Soc. Bengal 42: 252. 1873; Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 109,
Pl. 96. 1896 and in Hook f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 413. 1897; Camus, Les Bambusees 168. 1913; Varmah and Bahadur, Indian
For. Rec. (n.s.) Bot. 6(1): 2. 1980.
DESCRIPTION
An evergreen tufted, semi-arborescent bamboo. Culms 3-6 m high, dull green, turning yellow, smooth; nodes not
prominent; internodes long, 2.5-3.8 cm diameter. Culm-sheaths 10-35 cm long and 12-27 cm broad, smooth or curved
with appressed white hairs or pale brown bristly hairs; imperfect blade 2.5-9 cm long and broad, erect, triangular or
ovate, margins usually long, ciliate, decurrent into a wavy fringes bordering the top of the sheath and ending on either
side in a long pointed auricle; auricles margined with stiff curved bristles; ligule entire or slightly toothed. Leaves 7-19 cm
long and 1-2 cm broad, linear, contracted at the base into a very short petiole, acuminate at apex in a long slightly
scabrous point, glabrous except for a few long hairs on under surface, margins scabrous, sheaths glabrous, auricles
furnished with a few short deciduous cilia, ligule narrow, inconspicuous. Inflorescence a leafy branched panicle of few
verticillate branchlets, bearing heads of spikelets supported by a glabrous bract, rachis slender, spikelets mostly fertile,
linear acuminate, hairy, ca.1 cm long, with few empty bract-like glumes or sterile spikelets between, glumes ovatelanceolate,
mucronate, white hairy, 7-9-nerved; lemmas similar to glumes. Palea as long as the lemma, 2-keeled, keels
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