Chandigarh Forest Flora
A Comprehensive Database of Ligneous Plants of Chandigarh (India)
Designed & Developed by Bioinformatics Centre, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun
| Family: Poaceae | Genus: Bambusa | Species: Bambusa wamin E.G.Camus |
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| Synonym | Bambusa vulgaris f. waminiiT.H.Wen, Arundarbor blancoi (Steud.) Kuntze | Flower Color | Brownish |
| Common Name | Guadua Bamboo | Flower Type | Spikelet |
| English / Trade Name | Dwarf Buddha Belly Bamboo | Flowering Period | Jan-March |
| Vernacular /Local Name | Buddha Belly Bamboo | Fruiting Period | Jan-March |
| Altitude | Up to 1500 m | Fruit Type | Caryopsis |
| Habit | Shrub | Fruit Details | Fruit caryopsis (not known). |
| Habitat | Tropical and subtropical clumping bamboo, prefers full sun to partial shade | Bark Type | Smooth |
| Distribution | Native to South China. | Bark Details | Loosely tufted, dark shiny green, woody and thick-walled, with an average height between 2-5 m. Internodes are 10-15 cm long of which the lower internodes are shortened and swollen with nodal roots. Lower swollen internodes can be 10-12 cm in diameter. |
| Distribution in chandigarh | Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park | Origin | Exotic |
| Leaf Type | Simple | ||
| Leaf Arrangement | Alternate (leaves born singly along stem) | ||
| Leaf Shape | Lence shaped | ||
| Description of Species | Open clumping, sympodial bamboo. Culm erect, sinuous or slightly zig-zag, up to 20 m tall, glossy green, with appressed dark hairs and white waxy when young, becoming glabrous, smooth and shiny with age; nodes oblique, slightly swollen, basal ones covered with aerial roots. Leaf blade erect, broadly triangular, slightly narrowed at the junction with the sheath, stiffly acuminate, hairy on both surfaces and along the lower part of the margins; ligule slightly serrated; auricles relatively large, with pale brown bristles 3-8 mm long along the edges. Young shoot yellow green, covered with black hairs. flower usually borne on a leafless branch of a leafless culm or on a culm with small leaves, bearing small groups of pseudospikelets at the nodes, spikelets laterally flattened, appearing strongly 2-cleft, comprising 5-10 perfect florets and a terminal vestigial floret. Fruit caryopsis (not known). | Leaf Details | Leaf blade erect, broadly triangular, slightly narrowed at the junction with the sheath, stiffly acuminate, hairy on both surfaces and along the lower part of the margins; ligule slightly serrated; auricles relatively large, with pale brown bristles 3-8 mm long along the edges. Young shoot yellow green, covered with black hairs. |
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