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Dendrocalamus giganteus
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Family:
POACEAE/GRAMINEAE
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Citation: Dendrocalamus giganteus Wall. ex Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 150. 1868; Gamble, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 7: 87. 1896.
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Description:
Culms 30-35 m tall, 18-25 cm in diameter, branched above, nodes hairy; internodes rather short, grey-green, ceraceous when young, walls thin; culm sheaths to 50 cm long, as broad at the base, deciduous, thinly strigose with golden hairs, top depressed; blade 13-38 cm long, 9 cm wide, decurrent into glabrous, stiff, brown, wavy auricles, narrowed above into a short point; ligule 5-13 cm long, black, its margin serrate. Leaves cuspidately acuminate, tips twisted, hairy beneath when young, midrib strong, nerves 12-16 pairs, with pellucid cross bars. Panicle very large, branchlets slender, curved; spikelet clusters to 2.5 cm broad, the clusters 1.5-2.5 cm apart; spikelets ovate, acute, several-flowered, 1-2 cm long. Glumes 2 or 3, ovate, mucronate, striate; florets 3-6; lemmas 3-6, thin, mucronate, many-nerved. Anthers 6, acuminate at tip. Style long, hirsute, sometimes divided into 2 stigmas; ovary hirsute, long-rostrate. Fruit oblong, ca. 6 mm long, obtuse (rostrum caducous), hirsute at apex.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
All Districts
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Cultivated
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Distribution:
Native of Myanmar
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Monocotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
Yes
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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