Bambusa maculata

Thai names: ไผ่ตุตุล (phai tutun); ไผ่อังกะลุง (phai angkalung); ไผ่ลายเสือ (phai lai suea).

Indonesian names: bambu tutul (tutul = dot, spotted); Javanese name: pring tutul; Sundanese name: awi tutul; Balinese name: tiying tutul.

Malay name: buluh tutul.

Distribution: THAILAND: introduced, in cultivation, rare. — INDONESIA: Moluccas and Lesser Sunda Islands, in dry areas on poor soil, in the lowlands, wild; cultivated in Bali and Java.

Descriptions:

(1) "Shoots green with yellow stripes. Culms 15 m high with pendulous tips; branching at about 1 m above the ground; young culms green with yellow stripes at the base, when old becoming green with brown spots; internodes 30-35 cm long by 4-7 cm diameter; walls 8-10 mm thick. Culm leaves glabrous or with scattered dark hairs, persistent to deciduous, sheath 15-17 cm long, up to 16 cm wide, sheath apex upcurved in the middle; auricles curved outward, up to 5.5 mm high and 10 mm in lateral extent, bristles 14-15 mm long, extended up to the blade's base; ligule entire, 2 mm high, glabrous; blade erect to spreading, triangular, more than half as long as the sheath, 6.5-8.2 by 3.5-4.5 cm, base broadly attached to the sheath apex (c. 4 cm wide), base margin ciliate. Leaf blades 22.5-37.5 X 1-4.5 cm, glabrous; auricles inconspicuous, glabrous; ligule denticulate, 1 mm high, glabrous. … [flowers described]."  — E. A. Widjaja, 1997: 63 [#1352].

(2) "Habit: Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; pendulous at the tip; 1500 cm long; 40–70 mm diam.; woody; without nodal roots. Culm-internodes terete; with small lumen; 30–35 cm long; white and brown; mottled; distally glabrous. Lateral branches dendroid; arising from lower culm. Bud complement 1. Branch complement several; in a clump; with 1 branch dominant; thinner than stem. Culm-sheaths deciduous; 15–16 cm long; 1 times as long as wide; convex at apex; auriculate; with 4–4.5 mm high auricles; setose on shoulders; shoulders with 14–15 mm long hairs. Culm-sheath ligule 2 mm high; entire. Culm-sheath blade triangular; erect, or spreading; 6.5–8.2 cm long; 35–45 mm wide. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1 mm long; erose. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades deciduous at the ligule; lanceolate; 22.5–38 cm long; 10–45 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate. … [flowers and seeds described]." — Kew GrassBase, accessed 19 Oct. 2020 [#1335].

(3) E. A. Widjaja, Spect. Indones. Bamboos, 2019: p. 60-63 [#1279].

Images: Line drawing in E. A. Widjaja, 1997: 64, fig. 2 [#1352]. Photos in BambooWeb.info [#1340]; BambooLand (culms, shoot); Whitsunday (culms, habit); E. A. Widjaja, l.c., 2019 (habit, culms, culm-leaf).

Uses: Culms for making furniture, musical instruments, wall panels, flooring, handicrafts.