BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Sinarundinaria
DESCRIPTION
A reed-like bamboo. Culms erect; internodes glabrous; nodes yellowish-velvety. Leaves 7-15 cm long and 0.8-1.5 cm
broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, tapering at the apex, cuneate at the base, tessellate with 3-4 secondary veins on
each side; sheaths glabrous with small auricles and erect oral setae; ligules conspicuous. Inflorescence loosely paniculate,
leafy, up to 15 cm long. Spikelets 4-8 cm long, numerous, pedicels up to 2 cm long, pubescent, slightly flexuous, floret 5-
10; rachilla 0.8-1 cm long, tomentose; empty glumes 2, first glume 6 mm long, second 7-8 mm long, lemma 1.2-1.5 cm
long, glabrous except at the apex, 5-7-nerved, long acuminate or subulate at the apex; palea 1-1.5 cm long, 2-keeled;
lodicules 3, more or less ovate, ciliate at the margin. Stamens 3, 5-6.5 mm long. Caryopsis not known.
FLOWERING
Flowering has been reported from Lushai
Hills, Mizoram in 1953.
DISTRIBUTION
The species is distributed in Mizoram
(Lushai Hills) at an elevation of 1300 m.
The species appears to be endemic to
Mizoram.
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➤Fig. 101. S. longispiculata. A - a portion
of flowering branch; B - node; C - spike;
D - lower glume; E - upper glume;
F - floret; G - lodicules; H - pistil;
I - caryopsis.
Sinarundinaria microphylla
Sinarundinaria microphylla (Munro) Chao & Renv. Kew Bull. 44: 354. 1989.
Arundinaria microphylla Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 32. 1868; Gamble, Indian For. 14: 314. 1888, Ann. Roy.
Bot. Gard. Calcutta 7: 22. 1896, in Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 7: 383. 1897; Brandis, Indian Trees 667. 1906; Camus, Les
Bambusees 51. 1913; Varmah and Bahadur, Indian For. Rec. (n.s.)Bot. 6(1): 1. 1980; Tewari, Monogr. Bamboo 25. 1992.
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