Oreobambos K.Schum.

Bamboo with woody culms. Leaf-blades disarticulating from the sheaths. Inflorescence large, loose, the spikelet-clusters alternate on opposite sides of its branches, each cluster arising in the axil of a deciduous bladeless or short-bladed sheath, it and the individual spikelets subtended also by broad coriaceous bracts, their outer sides forming a sort of involucre. Spikelets 2-flowered, both florets hermaphrodite, awnless, terete or slightly laterally compressed; rhachilla disarticulating only beneath the upper glume, produced as a fine bristle beyond the upper floret; lower glume absent; upper glume rounded on the back, convolute, coriaceous or papyraceous; lemmas exceeding the glumes, imbricate, convolute, rounded on the back, 11–23-nerved with transverse veinlets, papyraceous to thinly coriaceous; palea 5–11-nerved, 2-keeled, flat between the keels; lodicules 0; stamens 6, anthers mucronate, filaments free; ovary hairy at the tip, stigma 1. Grain with free pericarp and crustaceous hairy apical appendage