红毛竹 hong mao si lao zhu

Culms 5–7 m, 2–3 cm in diam., apically scrambling; internodes 25–35 cm, scabrous, white powdery; wall thin; nodes flat, with a white powdery ring below sheath scar. Culm sheaths deciduous, suboblong, shorter than internodes, densely yellow-brown tomentose, base without a projection, apex arched-concave; auricles absent; ligule short, margin with brown cilia ca. 2 mm; blade reflexed, linear-lanceolate, abaxially with sparse, stiff hairs, adaxially densely yellow-brown tomentose, apex rugose. Leaves 4–6 per ultimate branch; leaf blade ovate-lanceolate, 18–20 × 4–5 cm, base cuneate, apex long acuminate. Inflorescence unknown.

* Forests; ca. 1600 m. SE Yunnan (Malipo).

(=Cephalostachyum sanguineum (W. P. Zhang) D. Z. Li & H. Q. Yang, Ann. Bot. Fennici 44: 156. 2007).