Schizostachyum brachycladum (Kurz ex Munro) Kurz
- Habit
- Culms: Tufted
- Culm Diameter: 6 - 8 cm
- Culm Internode Length: 20 - 50 cm
- Wall thickness: Thin-walled
- Height: 10 - 15 meter
- Identification Features: Culm Color-Green/Yellow with few narrow green streakes; Culm-sheaths 18 cm long, persistent, coriaceous, pubescent, hairy throughout, with dark brown or red hairs hairs, auriculate; Leaves lanceolate, 20-40 cm long, 3-7 cm wide; Inflorescence is dense tufts of pseudo spikelets at the nodes on the rigid distal part of a leafy branchlet; Caryopsis with free brittle pericarp, oblong.
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- Distribution: India (Kerala), Indonesia, Malayasia, Philippines, Singapore
- Altitude: 600 meter
- Spacing for Cultivation:3 x 3 meter
- Uses: Ornamental, Construction, Handicraft, Edible shoots, Roofing, Water containers
Synonym of Schizostachyum brachycladum
Taxon identifiers:
Arundo cratium Oken, Melocanna zollingeri var. brachyclada Kurz ex Munro, Schizostachyum brachycladum var. auriculatum Holttum, Melocanna brachyclada Kurz in J.E.Teijsmann & S.Binnendijk, Melocanna zollingeri var. brachyclada Kurz ex Munro, Schizostachyum brachycladum var. auriculatum Holttum.
Remarks: Widely grown as an ornamental species in India.
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