Pseudostachyum polymorphum

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Pseudostachyum polymorphum
Pseudostachyum polymorphum
Pseudostachyum polymorphum

Pseudostachyum polymorphum Munro

  • Habit
  • Culms: solitary
  • Culm Diameter: 3 - 3.5 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 20 - 23 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thin-walled
  • Height: 15 - 20 meter
  • Identification Features: Culm Color- dark green or glaucous, long creeping; Culm-sheaths pubescent, with appressed hairs, with dark brown hairs, truncate at apex, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate or oblong, 10-20 cm long, 2.5-6 cm wide; Inflorescence a very large leafy panicle, compound branches fascicled at the nodes, pendulous or curved; Caryopsis with free brittle pericarp, orbicular.
  • Flowering Cycle:
  • Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal), Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Nepal
  • Altitude: 1000 meter
  • Uses: Handicrafts
Vernacular names of Pseudostachyum polymorphum

Bajal, Nal, Tolli (Ass.); Serim (Khasi); Wachall (Garo); Purphiok, Paphak (Lepcha); Pheling (Nepali); Talak (Myon Naga, Manipuri); Mareo, Nagachui (Tangkhul); Chal, Chail (Kuki); Rapai/ Ratai (Mara); Uanol (Bru).

Synonym of Pseudostachyum polymorphum

Schizostachyum polymorphum (Munro) R.B.Majumdar in S.Karthikeyan & al., Pseudostachyum wakha Brandis ex E.G.Camus, Schizostachyum leviculme McClure

Flowering Reported: Sikkim (1857); Mizoram (1978-79) (Mohan Ram and Hari Gopal, 1981) Sporadic; Arunachal Pradesh (1991) (Haridasan, 1991).

Remarks: Reported from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal.

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