Family: Poaceae

Description: 

Culms tufted, erect, 10-20 m tall, smooth and shiny, glossy green, yellow, or yellow with green stripes; internodes 20-40 cm long, basal nodes with aerial roots; culm sheath broadly triangular, blade broadly triangular, slightly narrowed at the junction with the sheath, acuminate, hairy on both surface. Leaves 6-30 cm long, glabrous. Inflorescence usually on leafless branches from middle of the culms; pseudo-spikelets in small groups of at the nodes.