BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Bamboos of India
DESCRIPTION
Smallest bamboo; caespitose, shrubby. Culms ca. 1.2 m high; internode ca. 7 cm long, glabrous; node prominent, with
many semi-verticillate branches. Leaves ca. 3 cm long and 0.3 cm broad, linear-lanceolate, acute; secondary veins 2
pairs, inconspicuous, transverse veinlets many, forming squares and rectangles; leaf sheath striate, dark, scabrous,
fimbriate at the top; ligule scarcely visible. Inflorescence not known.
DISTRIBUTION AND ECOLOGY
Found in North-East India; Sikkim (Bahadur, 1979) and Khasi Hills in Meghalaya. Distributed mostly in cool temperate
to sub-alpine zone. Commonly found in large patches in wet places.
USES
This can be planted in water-logged areas since the long and hollow rhizome neck will help in drainage and aeration.
The leaves can be used as a fodder.
Sinarundinaria nagalandiana
Sinarundinaria nagalandiana Naithani, Indian For.
120:1120. 1994. (Fig. 102).
DESCRIPTION
An erect thorny bamboo. Culms caespitose, 3-7 m high, olivegreen;
branches greenish black; nodes prominent, bearing a circle
of conical, stout short spines; internodes up to 15 cm long, 2.5
cm diameter, at base bear a belt of soft brown hairs. Culm-sheaths
ca. 22 cm long and 9.5 cm broad, papery, striate, trasversely
veined, covered on the back with scattered, stiff, bulbous
hyphen based brown hairs, margins ciliate, broader at base,
tapering upwards to a 1.2 cm broad, non convexly, sometimes
obliquely truncate apex with very small auricles fringed with
deciduous bristles. Ligule absent; imperfect blade 1.5 x 0.5 cm,
triangular, transversely veined, brown ciliate near the margin,
line 102
➤ Fig. 102. S. nagalandiana. A - leafy branch; B - culm-sheath;
C - a portion of culm.
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