Bambusa

Schreb.
Source: 
SSA
Description: 
Perennial, sympodial, woody; culm sheath blades very broad. Leaf blade pseudopetiolate, disarticulating from sheaths; ligule unfringed to a fringed membrane. Inflorescence a panicle of 1-many pseudospikelets in globose clusters, sessile on nodes. Spikelet disarticulating above glumes; glumes 1-3, +/- equal, shorter than adjacent lemma. Florets 1-many, bisexual; lowermost florets sometimes sterile; lemma 9-22-nerved, awnless; palea 2-keeled with several nerves. Lodicules 3, membranous. Stamens 6. Ovary hairy with conspicuous, broadly conical and fleshy appendage; stigmas usually 3. x= 12 (aneuploids, polyploidy).
Distribution: 
Species +/- 120, tropical Asia and America; 1 naturalised and cultivated in sthn Afr.: * Bambusa balcooa Roxb. ex Roxb., Northern Province, Mpumalanga, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape. Flowering rare and sporadic.
Classification: 
POACEAE

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