Gigantochloa apus (Schult. & Schult. f.) Kurz

• Habit
• Culms: caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 4 - 13 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 20 - 60 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 8 - 22 meter

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• Identification Features: Culms bright green or yellow, hollow at the base; Culm-sheaths persistent, 7-35 cm long, brown, hispid, with black hairs, truncate at apex, auriculate; Leaves linear-lanceolate, 13-49 cm long; Inflorescence is a large pseudo-panicle, apparently leafless, with finely hairy axes and clusters of up to 20 pseudo spikelets; Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, lanceolate, with long attenuate furrow on one side.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Meghalaya), Bangladesh, Borneo, Jawa, Laos, Malaya, Myanmar, Thailand
• Altitude: 1500 meter
• Uses: Construction, Handicrafts, Furniture, Roofing, Scaffolding, Bridges walls, String making