Herbarium JCB

Bambusa arundinacea (Retz.) Willd.

Family : POACEAE
Family (As per The Plant List) : Poaceae
Species : Bambusa arundinacea
Species Name (as per The Plant List) : Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss
Common name : Thorny Bamboo
Vernacular name : Bidiru, Hebbidiru(Kan.)
Collection Nos : HFP 2582, CJS 10622
Collector(s) Name : T.P.Ramamoorthy & K.N.Gandhi
Key identification features : A tall woody bamboo with thorny culms, numerous and tufted, up to 40 m. tall, curving at top bearing recurved, stout spines. The lowest nodes bear roots. Stem-sheaths are leathery, orange-yellow when young, hairy outside, shining and ribbed inside. Leaves are thin, linear, up to 20 cm. long. Inflorescence is a panicle of enormous size, the branchlets with clusters of spikelets.
Habit : Shrub
Native : Southeast Asia
Comments : Tallest grass known.
Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
Collection Locality : Channarayapatna (Hassan)
Distribution Locality : Bangalore, Dakshina Kannada, Davanagere, Gulbarga, Hassan, Kodagu, Mysore, Tumkur, Udupi, Uttara Kannada
Floras referred : Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 - Hassan; Seetharam et al., 2000 - Gulbarga; Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 - Coorg; Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 - Udupi; Manjunath et al., 2003 - Davanagere