实心短枝竹 shi xin duan zhi zhu

Culms to 2 m, ca. 1 cm in diam.; internodes initially green, 30–50 cm, pubescent, brown hirsute below nodes, solid; nodes slightly prominent. Culm sheaths leathery, hirsute, margins ciliate; auricles oblong, 2–3 × ca. 1 mm; oral setae few, radiate; ligule slightly concave, apex ciliate; blade erect, narrowly lanceolate. Leaves 1 or 2 per ultimate branch; sheaths glabrous or initially pubescent; auricles and oral setae present; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm, with cilia ca. 2 mm; blade broadly lanceolate, 8–25 × 3–4.5 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 5–8-paired. Inflorescence unknown. New shoots Nov.

* Guangxi.

Gelidocalamus albopubescens W. T. Lin & Z. J. Feng (Acta Phytotax. Sin. 30: 561. 1992), described from Guangdong (Guangning), may be a synonym of this species.