Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) Keng F.

Arundinaria de Ragamowsk (fr), Bambou de Ragamowsk (fr)

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Indocalamus

Characteristics

Culms 0.75–2 m, 0.4–0.7 cm in diam.; internodes usually green, ca. 25(–32) cm, with a red-brown tomentose ring below each node; nodes weakly elevated, supra-nodal ridge slightly more prominent than sheath scar. Culm sheaths striate, usually longer than internodes, upper portion loosely encircling culm, lower portion closely encircling it, thinly leathery, white tomentose, purple-brown strigose; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule truncate, 1–2 mm, membranous, brown hirtellous; blade deciduous, narrowly lanceolate, variable in size. Leaf sheaths leathery, glabrous, margin basally ciliate, distally glabrous; auricles rare, to 1 mm; oral setae very scarce, erect, white, straight, to 2 mm; ligule truncate or eroded, 1–2 mm, puberulent; blade broadly lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, 20–46 × 4–10.8 cm, abaxially gray-green, glabrous or densely appressed-puberulent and tomentose along both or one side of midrib, secondary veins 8–16 pairs, tessellations square. Panicle 10–15 cm, partially exserted; branches erect, main axis and branches densely brown-puberulent. Spikelets purple-green, nearly terete, 2.3–2.5 cm; florets 5–15; pedicels 1–4 cm. Rachilla internodes 1–4 mm, white puberulent. Glumes 1 or 2, papery; lower glume 5–7 mm, densely puberulent, 5-veined; upper glume 7–12 mm, distally puberulent, 7-veined; first lemma 1.1–1.3 cm, distally puberulent, 11–13-veined, margins sparsely ciliate, apex very long acuminate to mucronate, callus 0.5–1 mm, white barbate; first palea ca. 1/3 as long as lemma, minutely white pubescent between keels, apex very shortly 2-cleft and pubescent; lodicules 3, oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, distally sparsely pilose. Anthers red, 6–7 mm. Ovary green, ovoid; style red, ca. 2 mm; stigmas 2, red, 3–4 mm. Caryopsis ca. 7 × 2.5 mm, style base persistent. New shoots Apr–May, fl. Jun–Jul.
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A bamboo. It grows 1-2 m tall. The stems are 4-7 mm across. The internodes are 25 cm long. It has the largest leaves of any bamboo. They can be 20-60 cm long and 10 cm wide.
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Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
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Mature width (meter) 1.5
Mature height (meter) 1.5 - 2.5
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Environment

It is a temperate plant. It grows in open forests and on mountain slopes between 300-1,400 m above sea level.
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Open forests on mountain slopes; at elevations from 300-1,400 metres.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-8
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Hardiness (USDA) 6-9

Usage

Rice dishes are wrapped in or cooked in the leaves to absorb the flavour of the leaves.
Uses environmental use material medicinal
Edible leaves
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Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
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Images

Indocalamus tessellatus unspecified picture

Distribution

Indocalamus tessellatus world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:405877-1
WFO ID wfo-0000875753
COL ID 3PMZZ
BDTFX ID 120903
INPN ID 789237
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Synonyms

Arundo ragamowskii Bambusa ragamowskii Indocalamus tessellatus Pseudosasa hamadae Pseudosasa longivaginata Sasa ragamovskii Sasa tessellata Arundinaria hamadae Bambusa tessellata Indocalamus tessellatus f. hamadae Pseudosasa tessellata Sasamorpha tessellata Arundinaria ragamowskii Indocalamus hamadae