Gigantochloa verticillata (Willd.) Munro

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 5 - 10 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 15 - 20 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm-internodes terete, thick-walled, mid-green and yellow, distally glabrous; Culm-sheaths 15-30 cm long, hispid, with dark brown hairs, truncate at apex, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate, 25 cm long and 2.5 cm wide; Inflorescence is Panicle and bractiferous, clustered at the nodes, Fertile spikelets sessile; Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, hairy at apex.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Malaya, Myanmar, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
• Uses: Edible shoots, Building and Construction, Handicrafts, Medicinal uses