Bambusa burmanica Gamble
- Habit
- Culms: Caespitose
- Culm Diameter: 7 - 10 cm
- Culm Internode Length: 25 - 40 cm
- Wall thickness: Thick-walled or solid
- Height: 10 - 19 meter
- Identification Features: Rhizomes short; culm Pale green, nodes with white ring of hairs, waxy coated, woody, without nodal roots; culm-sheaths 0.9 times as long as wide, green, hairy on margins, auriculate, ciliate on shoulders; culm-sheath ligule entire, blade triangular; leaves 25-30 cm long, 3.5-5 cm broad, oblong, lanceolate; inflorescence with spicate branches, bearing heads of few spikelets; fruit caryopsis, 5 8 mm.
- Flowering Cycle:
- Distribution: China, India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Mizoram, West Bengal), Malaysia, Myanmar
- Altitude: Up to 1300 meter
- Spacing for Cultivation:8 x 8 meter
- Uses: Roofing, Construction, Handicraft