BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Bamboos of India
Sinarundinaria kurzii
Sinarundinaria kurzii (Gamble) Muktesh
kumar Comb. nov. (Fig. 100).
Arundinaria kurzii Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard.
Calcutta 7: 25. 1896, in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7:
385. 1897; Camus, Les Bambusees 50. 1913; Biswas,
Indian For. 114: 526. 1988. Drepanostachyum kurzii
Majumdar, Bull. Bot. Surv. India 25:236. 1983;
Tewari, Monogr. Bamboo 90. 1992.
DESCRIPTION
A low level bushy bamboo. Culms ca.1.2 cm
diameter, thin, smooth; internode ca.18 cm long,
striate, yellow; nodes prominent, having a thick ringlike
scar formed by the base of the fallen culmsheath;
branchlets many, fascicled, with swollen
joints. Leaves ca. 8 cm long and 0.5 cm broad, linearlanceolate,
very thin, attenuate at the base into a
short petiole, tip mucronate, glabrous on dorsal
surface, with scattered long white hairs on the
ventral surface, edges smooth; midrib prominent,
secondary veins 3 pairs, intermediate 6, transverse
veinlets inconspicuous; leaf-sheath striate, slender,
glabrous, ending into a callus with few bristles; ligule
short, ciliate. Inflorescence unknown.
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Fig. 100. S. kurzii. A - leafy branches with part of culm.
DISTRIBUTION
This species is distributed in North-East India; Meghalaya (Khasi Hills), Manipur and Nagaland. This is a rare bamboo.
Sinarundinaria longispiculata
Sinarundinaria longispiculata (Bor) Chao and Renv. Kew Bull. 43:411. 1988; Tewari, Monogr. Bamboo 149.1992.
(Fig. 101).
Arundinaria longispiculata Bor, mss.
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