Dendrocalamus strictus

Deciduous, densely tufted bamboo, culms 7Ð17 m, (3Ð)6Ð10 cm in diameter, internodes 30Ð45 cm, white powdery, wall thick, culm often solid. Branches several, main mid-culm ones 3. Culm sheaths deciduous, orange-brown, approximately 3/4 as long as internodes, thickly papery, margins ciliate, apex rounded, auricles absent, ligule 1Ð3 mm, serrulate, blade erect, narrowly triangular. Leaf sheaths initially sparsely hairy, becoming glabrous, ligule short, serrulate, blade usually narrowly lanceolate, 5Ð30 ? 1Ð3 cm. Pseudospikelet clusters 2.5Ð5 cm in diameter. Spikelets 8Ð15 mm, usually densely pubescent, fertile florets 2Ð4. Glumes 2 or more, 6Ð8 mm, long mucronate, lemma 9Ð10 mm, apex long mucronate, palea 8Ð9 mm. Anthers yellow, approximately 5 mm, connective apically produced. Caryopsis brown, shining, ovoid to sub-globose, about 8 mm long, hairy above, beaked with the persistent base of the style, pericarp coriaceous (Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2015, Flora of Pakistan, 2015).