Bambusa pallida Munro
- Habit
- Culms: Caespitose
- Culm Diameter: 2.5 - 3.5 cm
- Culm Internode Length: 45 - 75 cm
- Wall thickness: Thin-walled
- Height: 13 - 20 meter
- Identification Features: Culm Color-Dark Green; Culm-sheaths 20-30 cm long, with throughout appressed hairs, without auricles, Culm-sheath blade triangular; Leaves: 10-20 cm long, Lanceolate; Inflorescence is large panicle spicate branchlets; Fruit is a Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
- Flowering Cycle:
- Distribution: India (Arunachal pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar pradesh, West Bengal), Bangladesh, Bhuttan, China, Myanmar
- Altitude: 700 - 2000 meter
- Uses: Building and construction, Handicrafts, screens, wall hangers
Vernacular names of Bambusa pallida
Taxon identifiers:
Assam-Bijli, Jowa, Makal, Walkthai; Cachar-Bakhal, Burwal; Khasi- Seskien, Skhen, Tneng, Usken; Lepcha-Pashipo, Pshi, Pushee; Mikir- Loto; Naga: Tesero, Watoi, Tripura-Makal.
Synonym of Bambusa pallidaArundarbor pallida (Munro) Kuntze, Bambusa critica Kurz, Bambusa pseudopallida R.B.Majumdar in S.Karthikeyan et al., Bambusa barpatharica Borthakur & Barooah, Bambusa mompaeana H.B. Naithani, Bambusa rangaensis Borthakur & Barooah, Dendrocalamus criticus (Kurz) Kurz, Bambusa pseudopallida R.B.Majumdar
Flowering Reported: Bangladesh in 1850, Kamrup in Assam in 1890
Remarks: Sikkim.
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