Dendrocalamus longispathus (Kurz) Kurz

• Habit
• Culms: caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 6 - 10 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 25 - 60 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 10 - 18 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-grayish green; Culm-sheaths 35-50 cm long and 10-20 cm broad, inner surface glabrous and outer surface clothed densely with patches of stiff dark-brown hair; Leaves 10-30 cm long, Oblong-lanceolate; Inflorescence a large panicle of interruptedly spicate clusters of spikelets; Caryopsis ovoid, yellow, surmounted by a beak formed by the base of the style.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India ( Assam, Jharkhand, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Odisha, Tripura, Uttarakhand) Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, Thailand.
• Spacing for Cultivation:5 x 5 meter
• Uses: Pulp and paper, Handicrafts, Tooth picks, Landscaping