Bambusa pervariabilis

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.