鸡爪箭竹 ji zhua jian zhu

Culms ca. 1.5 m, 0.5–0.8 cm in diam.; internodes dark purple-brown, 7–12 cm, pubescent, nearly solid; supra-nodal ridges weakly prominent; sheath scar woody. Branches 6–8 per node, slender. Culm sheaths unknown. Leaves 3 or 4 per ultimate branch, deciduous; sheath 2.5–2.7 cm, initially densely setose; auricles deflexed, falcate; oral setae short; ligule arcuate, ca. 1 mm; blade narrowly lanceolate, 4–7 × 0.9–1.2 cm, abaxially setose, secondary veins 3- or 4-paired, transverse veins obscure, base broadly cuneate or nearly rounded, margins serrulate, apex acuminate and obtuse. Inflorescence a raceme; spikelets 2–4; florets 2 or 3. Glumes 2, glabrous; lemma glabrous, apex obtuse; palea glabrous, apex sharply obtuse; lodicules ciliate. Ovary cylindrical, ca. 2 mm; style 1, very short; stigmas 3, penicillate. Caryopsis unknown.

* NW Hunan.