BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Schizostachyum
FLOWERING
Flowering has been reported in 1888 from Jaintia Hills and in 1940 from Garo Hills of Assam.
DISTRIBUTION
This species is distributed in Meghalaya and Assam of North- Eastern India.
USES
The culms are used for basket-making.
Schizostachyum kurzii
Schizostachyum kurzii (Munro) Majumdar, in Karthikeyan et al. Fl. Ind. Enum. Monocot. 281. 1989; Tewari,
Monogr. Bamboo 139. 1992. (Fig. 85).
Melocanna kurzii Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 134. 1868; Teinostachyum schizostachyoides Kurz, J. Asiat.
Soc. Bengal 39: 89. 1870; Bambusa schizostachyoides (Kurz) Kurz ex Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 48 Pl.
44. 1896 and in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 393. 1897; Camus, Les Bambusees 126, Pl. 71, Fig. B. 1913; Parkinson, For. Fl.
Andaman Island 271. 1923; Varmah and Bahadur
Indian For. Rec. (n.s.) Bot. 6(1): 2. 1980; Bambusa
kurzii (Munro) Balakr., Bull. Bot. Surv. India 22:176.
1980.
DESCRIPTION
An arborescent, evergreen, tufted bamboo. Culms
5-8 m high, 8-10 cm diameter, green, glossy; nodes
not thickened; internodes 45- 60 cm long, walls
very thin; branches 1-4 in each node. Culm-sheaths
line 85
➤Fig. 85. S. latifolium. A - leafy branch;
B & C - flowering branches; D - spikelet; E - empty
glume; F - flowering glume; G - palea; H - lodicules;
I - stamen; J - pistil.
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