Dendrocalamus hookeri Munro
- Habit
- Culms: Tufted
- Culm Diameter: 10 - 15 cm
- Culm Internode Length: 40 - 50 cm
- Wall thickness: Thick-walled
- Height: 15 - 20 meter
- Identification Features: Culm Color-dark green, with many long internodes; Culm-sheaths 20-30 cm long, hispid, with dark brown or black hairs; Leaves large, oblong-lanceolate; Inflorescence a large compound panicle bearing at intervals of 5-7 cm; fruit a Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
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- Distribution: India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, West Bengal) Myanmar, Nepal
- Altitude: 600 -1500 meter
- Uses: Construction, Handicrafts
Vernacular names of Dendrocalamus hookeri
Taxon identifiers:
Seiat, Sejsai, Sijong, Ukotang, Ussey (Assam); Siejong (Jaintia); Denga (Khasi); Patu (Lepcha); Ooei (Manipur); (Tili bans) Nepal
Synonym of Dendrocalamus hookeriBambusa globifera Griseb., Bambusa hookeri Rivière & C.Rivière, Bambusa altissima E.G.Camus, Sinocalamus hookeri (Munro) T.Q.Nguyen
Flowering Reported: Uttar Pradesh-Khasi hills (1850), Nainital (1980-81), Shillong (1966), East-Khasi Hills (1982)
Remarks: Reported from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Mizoram, Sikkim.
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