粉麻竹 fen ma zhu

Culms to 8 m, 4–6 cm in diam.; internodes 25–30 cm; wall thick. Branches usually from ca. 10th node upward, several, dominant branches longer and thicker. Culm sheaths deciduous, abaxially appressed brown setose; auricles small or absent; ligule ca. 4 mm, margin hairy, apex arched; blade reflexed, lanceolate. Leaf sheaths glabrous; ligule ca. 1 mm, serrulate; blade lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, 13–20 × 2.5–3.3 cm. Inflorescence unknown.

* Cultivated. Guangdong.