Bambusa sp. (SG)
Bambusa sp. (SG)
Distribution: THAILAND (North), cultivated, rare, introduced from Singapore. SINGAPORE, cultivated. MALAYSIA: supposed to occur in Peninsular Malaysia, too.
Specimen: BS-0469 [BBG ] (living plant), Singapore Botanic Gardens, "0-182", received via C. S., 1 June 2010.
Comments: The plant was transferred to Boonthammee Bamboo Garden and is no longer in cultivation at Bambusetum Baan Sammi.
Bambusa sp. (BS-0469): Foliage-leaves (left), a section of culm with a culm-leaf (center and right)
Characteristics: Habit caespitose, tight clump. Rhizome pachymorph, short. Young shoots conical, sheaths green to brownish to reddish, culm-leaf blades erect. Culm-internodes terete, green to reddish, with darker streaks, thinly farinose on the upper part when young; walls thick. Culm-nodes glabrous, not prominent. Branches several, the central one dominant. Culm-leaves deciduous, light straw-colored when dry. Culm-leaf sheaths green with reddish to brownish streaks, the lower part densely covered with fuzzy, reddish brown to dark brown hairs, the upper part glabrous; apex rounded; margins pale ciliate. Culm-leaf auricles small irregularly shaped protruding lobes or rims, adnate to the bases of the blade, with untidy whitish to brownish bristles. Culm-leaf blades erect, caducous, triangular, glabrous. Foliage-leaves 6–13 per branchlet. Foliage-leaf sheaths yellowish green when young, glabrous. Foliage-leaf auricles inconspicuous, pale bristly. Foliage-leaf ligule pale ciliate. Foliage-leaf blades mid-green to dark green, longitudinally mottled with light green, lanceolate; base rounded to wedge-shaped; apex attenuate; midvein distinct.