Phyllostachys elegans Mcclure

Species

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae > Phyllostachys

Characteristics

Culms 4–8 m, ca. 3 cm in diam.; internodes 12–15 cm, finely ribbed, initially white powdery; wall ca. 4 mm thick; nodal ridge slightly elevated, nearly as prominent as sheath scar. Culm sheaths purple-green, densely speckled, deciduously strigose, margins glabrous; auricles green-purple, narrowly falcate; oral setae long, wavy; ligule pale purple-green, arcuate, narrow, ciliate; blade reflexed, purple-green, linear, crinkled. Leaves 2 or 3 per ultimate branch; auricles small or absent, purple; oral setae present; ligule exserted, purple; blade thin, 4.5–12 × 1–1.7 cm, abaxially pilosulose. New shoots mid Apr.
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A bamboo. It grows 4-8 m tall. The stems are 3 cm across. The internodes are 12-15 cm long. There are 2 or 3 leaves on the last branch. The leaf blades are 5-12 cm long by 1-2 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination anemogamy
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Mature height (meter) 5.0 - 7.0
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows on slopes in forests at about 600 m above sea level.
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Forests on slopes; at elevations around 600 metres.
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Usage

The young shoots are eaten.
Uses food
Edible shoots
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
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Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.
Mode cuttings divisions seedlings
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Distribution

Phyllostachys elegans world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:415999-1
WFO ID wfo-0000890396
COL ID 6VFBM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Phyllostachys elegans