Schizostachyum dullooa (Gamble) R.B. Majumdar

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 2.5 - 7.5 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 40 - 75 cm
• Wall thickness: Thin-walled
• Height: 6 - 9 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Dark Green with a few white hairs, sometimes scandent, Whitish below the nodes, glossy when dry; Culm-sheaths 12-30 cm long, pubescent; with appressed white hairs, truncate at apex; Leaves lanceolate, 10-20 cm long; 2-2.5 cm wide; Inflorescence a panicle of spiciform branches with verticils of few spikelets; Caryopsis with free brittle pericarp.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Assam, West Bengal, Sikkim), Bangladesh, Myanmar, Vietnam
• Altitude: 1200 meter
• Uses: Handicrafts, Umbrella making