Bambusa pervariabilis
Bambusa pervariabilis McClure, Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. No. 9, 1940: 13.
Thai name: No known records.
Chinese name: 撑篙竹 (cheng gao zhu).
English name: Punting Pole Bamboo.
Distribution: CHINA (South): Guangdong; on riverbanks, around villages.
Culm size: Height 7–11 m, diameter 4–5.5 cm.
Description: "Culms 7–10 m, 4–5.5 cm in diam., basally straight, apex suberect; internodes straight, ca. 30 cm, basal internodes with yellow-green stripes, initially thinly white powdery or strigose; nodes slightly prominent, basal nodes with rings of gray-white silky hairs below and above sheath scar; branching from basal node up. Branches several to many, clustered, with central 3 dominant. Culm sheaths deciduous, initially with yellow-green stripes, thinly leathery, abaxially glabrous or sometimes strigose, apex asymmetrically arched; auricles unequal, undulate, wrinkled; larger auricle slanted along 1/6–1/5 of sheath margin, obovate-oblong to oblanceolate, 3.5–4 × ca. 1 cm, attenuate; smaller auricle suborbicular or elliptic, ca. 1.5 × 0.8 cm; oral setae fine, undulate; ligule 3–4 mm, irregularly dentate or sometimes laciniate, shortly fimbriate; blade deciduous, erect, nearly symmetrical, initially abaxially yellow-green striped, narrowly ovate-acuminate, base rounded and then extending outward and joined with auricles for 3–7 mm, nearly 2/3 width of sheath apex. Leaf blade linear-lanceolate, usually 10–15 × 1–1.5 cm, abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially glabrous. … [flowers and seeds described]." — Flora of China, accessed 13 Aug. 2020 [#1303].
Images: Line drawing in Flora of China [#1303]. Photos in AsianFlora (culms, culm sheaths, habit) [#1332]; BambooWeb.info [#1340].
Uses: Culms for farm tools, punting poles, paper pulp.
Bambusa pervariabilis 'Viridistriata'
Synonym: Bambusa pervariabilis var. viridistriata Q. H. Dai & X. C. Liu.
Thai name: No known records.
Chinese name: 花撑篙竹 (hua cheng gao zhu).
English name: Sunburst Bamboo.
Distribution: THAILAND: introduced, in cultivation, rare. — CHINA (South): Guangxi, in cultivation in Nanning.
Culm size: Height 7–11 m, diameter 4–5.5 cm.
Description: Flora of China [#1303].
Images: Photos in BambooWeb.info [#1340]; BambooCraft.net [#1341].
Specimens: BS-0259 [-], BS-0465 [-] (living plants), introduced from the USA to Thailand by C. S., received Sep. 2009.
Characteristics: Culm-internodes moderately thick-walled (→ table with culm size dimensions); culm and branch-internodes cream with green stripes when young, maturing to yellow with varying dark green stripes.
Uses: Plants as garden ornamentals.
Bambusa pervariabilis 'Viridistriata' (BS-0259): Culm with culm-leaf