Gigantochloa densa

Gigantochloa densa (É. G. Camus) T. Q. Nguyen, Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 75 (2), 1990: 224.

The outline shape of the culm-leaf sheath of BS-0046 is typically edged bell-shaped

Gigantochloa densa (BS-0046), from left to right: (1) Habit, showing a single significantly dominant and elongated branch on several culms; (2) culm-leaf on lower culm, its blade dropped off, showing a ligule much lower than in Gigantochloa albociliata, slender rudimentary branches, branching both extravaginal and intravaginal; (3) culm-leaf apex with dark green rim-like auricles, low ligule somewhat raised in the middle, and a reflexed blade brown hairy at the base; (4) lower part of a culm-leaf, showing a single patch of dense dark brown hairs near its base; (5) foliage-leaf blades showing their rounded bases with lobe-like edges.