Pseudoxytenanthera monadelpha (Thwaites) soderstr.& R.P.Ellis

• Habit
• Culms: Pluricaespitose
• Culm Diameter: 1 - 1.5 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 30 - 45 cm
• Wall thickness: Thick-walled
• Height: 4 - 8 meter

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• Identification Features: Culms scandent, pendulous at the tip; Culm-internodes terete; Culm-sheaths 15 cm long, deciduous but leaving a persistent girdle, yellow or purple, pilose, auriculate; Leaves linear or lanceolate, 12-20 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, dark green; Inflorescence a large leafy panicle with spicate branchlets bearing heads of more or less closely packed spikelets; Caryopsis with tardily free pericarp (below), hilum linear.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu), Sri Lanka
• Uses: Fencing, Thatching, Handicrafts