WorldFloraDB - Phyllostachys

Characteristics

Arborescent or shrubby bamboos. Rhizomes leptomorph, with running underground stems. Culms diffuse; internodes profoundly flattened or grooved on one side above branches; nodes 2-ridged. Branches 2, subequal, rarely with a much smaller, central or lateral 3rd branch. Culm sheaths deciduous, papery to subleathery; ligule usually conspicuous; usually auricled with long bristles; blade usually recurved or reflexed. Leaf blade with distinct transverse veins, usually abaxially pilose proximally. Inflorescence bracteate, partially iterauctant, composed of 1–7-spikeleted racemes gathered into fascicles or globose mass subtended by a tiny, membranous, 2-keeled prophyll, 0 or 1 gemmiferous bract, 2–6, gradually enlarged scaly bracts, and 2–7 spathiform bracts. Spikelets with 2–7 florets, terminal sterile. Glumes absent to 1(–3). Rachilla extending beyond uppermost floret, disarticulating just below fertile florets. Lemma variable in size and texture; palea 2-keeled, apex bifid; lodicules 3, ciliate. Stamens 3. Style long; stigmas (1–)3, plumose. Caryopsis elliptical to linear-lanceolate, dorsally grooved.

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Arborescent or shrubby perennials, with leptomorph rhizomes. Culms woody and persistent, flattened and grooved on branch-bearing side; with 2 primary branches per mid-culm node (but rebranching). Leaves: ligule an unfringed or fringed membrane; blade rolled in bud, pseudopetiolate, cross-veined. Inflorescences definite, compound paniculate consisting of spicate 1-spikeleted branchlets aggregated into spatheate clusters, without pseudospikelets. Spikelets laterally compressed to not noticeably compressed, disarticulating above glumes and between florets, with 1–4 florets and all bisexual. Glumes 1–3 (lateral spikelets with an outer bract at base), awnless, many-nerved. Lemma awnless or mucronate, keeled or not, many-nerved; palea several-nerved; stamens 3; ovary with conspicuous apical appendage, glabrous. Hilum long-linear.

Life form	perennial
Growth form	shrub
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Foliage retention	deciduous
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Uses	medicinal
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Therapeutic use	Febrifuge (unspecified), Sedative (unspecified)
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