BAMBOOS OF INDI A

Bamboos of India
USES
The local inhabitants use this
bamboo for roofing, thatching,
construction and basket making.
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Fig. 8. B. burmanica.
A - leafy branch; B - flowering
panicle; C - culm-sheath;
D - spikelet; E - flower;
F - flowering glume; G - palea;
H - lodicules; I - stamen;
J - pistil.
Fig. 9. B. cacharensis.
A - part of inflorescence;
B - culm-sheath; C - portion of
an young shoot showing
spreading culm-sheath-blade.
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Bambusa cacharensis
Bambusa cacharensis Majumdar, Bull. Bot.
Surv. India 25: 237. 1983; Naithani, Fl. Pl. India,
Nepal and Bhutan 513: 1990; Tewari, Monogr.
Bamboo 36.1992. (Fig. 9).
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DESCRIPTION
Tall bamboo, like B. tulda; young shoots are
without white powdery excretions below the
culm-sheaths. Culm-sheaths 12-15 cm long and
25-27 cm broad, sheath-blades orange-yellow and
spreading at right angles to the axis; covered on
the back with chocolate-brown sharp spicular hairs; blade with wavy auricles with thick rigid cilia on the margins and
short dense hairs outside on the body. Inflorescence panicle occupying the whole culm; spikelets aggregated at the
nodes of the ultimate branchlets, 3-3.5 cm long and 3-6 flowered, rachilla internodes articulated; florets 10-15 mm long,
glossy green. Can be easily spotted in the field due to the coloured reflexed blades of the culm-sheaths.
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