Gigantochloa macrostachya

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Gigantochloa macrostachya Kurz

  • Habit
  • Culms: Caespitose
  • Culm Diameter: 6 - 10 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 40 - 80 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thin-walled
  • Height: 10 - 16 meter
  • Identification Features: Culm Color-Dark green; Culm-sheaths short, 12-20 cm long, hispid, with appressed black hairs, hairy on margins, truncate at apex, auriculate; Inflorescence a large leafy panicle, composed of heads of spikelets more or less distichously and alternately spaced on the branches; Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, linear, hairy at apex.
  • Flowering Cycle:
  • Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram), Myanmar, Bangladesh
  • Uses: Building and Construction, Handicrafts
Vernacular names of Gigantochloa macrostachya

Takserah (Garo hills)

Synonym of Gigantochloa macrostachya

Bambusa macrostachya Kurz, Oxytenanthera macrostachya Brandis, Gigantochloa kachinensis E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa kathaensis E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa mogaungensis E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa tekserah E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa toungooensis E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa wanet E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa wunthoensis E.G.Camus, Gigantochloa yunzalinensis E.G.Camus

Flowering Reported: 1862 (Brandis)

Remarks: Reported from Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh.

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