Dendrocalamus brandisii

Descriptions:

(1) "A very large evergreen tufted bamboo. Culms ashy-gray to greenish-gray, 19-33 m high and 13-20 cm diameter; nodes slightly swollen, lower ones with rootlets; internodes 30-38 cm long. Culm-sheaths up to 60 cm long, 30-35 cm broad, thick, leathery with white pubescence on the back, otherwise smooth, rounded and depressed at the top; ligule 1-2 cm high, deeply lacerate; auricles small, plaited; blade 15-46 cm long, 8-13 cm broad, linear-lanceolate, recurved, appressed-hairy within, base rounded. Young shoots dark-gray, blade dark-brown. Leaves 20-30 cm long and 2.5-5 cm broad, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous petiole; leaf-sheath striate, pubescent when young with long deciduous ciliae at mouth; ligule long, fimbriate. …" — K. K. Seethalakshmi & al., Bamboos of India, 1998: p. 100 [#1062].

(2) "Culms 10–15 m, 10–12 cm in diam.; internodes 34–43 cm; wall ca. 3 cm thick. Branches several, dominant branches well developed. Culm sheaths deciduous, orange-brown to bright yellow, leathery; auricles small; ligule ca. 1 mm, margin deeply dentate; blade reflexed or nearly erect. Leaf sheaths white hairy; ligule 1.5–2 mm; blade variable, 23–30 × 2.5–5 cm. …" — Flora of China [#1303].

(3) "… Culms … slightly branched below, more so above …; internodes 12 to 15 in. [30-38 cm] long, walls thick. Culm-sheaths like those of D. giganteus, thick, coriaceous, up to 2 ft. [61 cm] long, 12 to 14 in. [30-35 cm] broad …; imperfect blade [culm-sheath blade] … rounded at the base and again decurrent on the sheath in small plaited auricles which do not reach its edge; ligule ·5 to ·7 in. [12-18 mm] broad, deeply lacerate. … Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 9 to 12 in. [22-30 cm] long, 1 to 2 in. [2.5-5 cm] broad, somewhat narrowed at the base and decurrent on a short wrinkled petiole; ending above in a subulate twisted point; glabrous above, softly hairy beneath; main vein thick, shining, secondary veins 10 to 12, intermediate about 6, the pellucid glands forming apparently transverse veinlets; leaf-sheaths striate, pubescent when young, ending in a large glabrous callus, and produced at the mouth where furnished with few long deciduous ciliæ; ligule long, conspicuous in young branches, acuminate, fimbriate especially on one side, in older ones truncate. … This splendid bamboo is often confused with the somewhat similar D. giganteus and, like it, is sometimes called Wabo (Burmese). … It is easily recognized from D. giganteus by the much smaller spikelets, and culms which, though not so large in diameter, have thicker walls. The culm-sheaths are very similar. It so much resembles D. flagellifer [conspecific with, and relegated into synonymy of D. asper] …" — J. S. Gamble, Bambuseae Brit. India, 1896: p. 90 [#1230].

(4) "… caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; 1900–3300 cm long; 130–200 mm diam.; woody; with aerial roots from the nodes. Culm-internodes terete; with small lumen; 30–38 cm long; grey. Lateral branches dendroid. Buds or branches present on lower quarter of culm. Culm-sheaths 40–60 cm long; 2 times as long as wide; coriaceous; pubescent; with white hairs; concave at apex; auriculate. Culm-sheath ligule 10–20 mm high; lacerate. Culm-sheath blade lanceolate; reflexed; 15–46 cm long; 80–130 mm wide; pubescent. Leaf-sheaths striately veined; pubescent. Leaf-sheath oral hairs scanty; deciduous. Ligule a ciliate membrane. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades lanceolate, or oblong; 20–30 cm long; 25–50 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation with 10–12 secondary veins. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade apex acuminate … [flowers and seeds described] …" — Kew GrassBase [#1335].

(5) "Loosely tufted, sympodial bamboo. Culm erect with pendulous tip, up to 30 m tall, diameter 15–20 cm at base, wall 2.5–4 cm thick, ashy-grey or greenish-grey to dull green, dirty yellowish-grey tomentose when young; internodes 30–60 cm long, sometimes sulcate, with a shiny brown pubescent transverse band below and above the nodes; nodes slightly swollen, supranodal lines distinct, with aerial roots on lower half of culm. Branches usually arising from upper mid-culm part, lower half usually more or less branchless but with a tuft of slender branches near the base; primary branches dominant, secondary branches slender. Culm sheath 40–60 cm × 20–35 cm, longer than internodes, elongate, rounded at top, whitish-brown, thick, leathery, early deciduous, covered with black hairs when young; blade lanceolate to long acuminate, 15–46 cm × 8–13 cm, reflexed, deciduous, appressed hairy within; ligule continuous with the sheath top, 1–2 cm long, deeply lacerate; auricles not reaching the edge of the sheath, up to 2 cm long, slightly pleated, bearing bristles. Young shoots conical, sheaths covered with shiny black hairs, blades reflexed. Leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 20–30 cm × 2.5–5 cm, upper surface pale green and glabrous, lower surface slightly whitish and sparsely pubescent; sheath striate, pubescent when young, with long deciduous cilia at mouth; ligule long, acuminate, fimbriate. … [flowers and seeds described]." — M. K. Alam in S. Dransfield & E. A. Widjaja (eds.), Plant Resources of South-East Asia No. 7, Bamboos, 1995: p. 83-85, fig. [#1226].