Bambusa teres
Bambusa teres
Bambusa teres

Bambusa teres Munro

  • Habit
  • Culms: Caespitose
  • Culm Diameter: 7.5 cm
  • Culm Internode Length: 50 cm
  • Wall thickness: Thick-walled
  • Height: 20 meter

  • Identification Features: Culm dark green; Culm-sheaths 20-25 cm long, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate or oblong, 30-35 cm long; Spikelets comprising 5-6 fertile florets, lanceolate, subterete, 30-50 mm long; Fruit is Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
  • Flowering Cycle:
  • Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Chhatisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal), Bengladesh, Bhutan, China,Myanamar,Nepal .
  • Uses: Used for making agarbathi sticks, mats and baskets
Vernacular names of Bambusa teres

Paora (Tripura); Bhaluki-makel (Assam)

Synonym of Bambusa teres

Arundarbor teres (Munro) Kuntze, Bambusa lixin Hsueh & T.P.Yi, Bambusa nutans subsp. cupulata Stapleton

Flowering Reported: Assam in 1891 and 1889, from Bangladesh during 1981-82.

Remarks: Reported from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Tripura, West Bengal.


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