Description
- Stems and leaves
- 200 - 1,950 centimeters (6 – 64 feet) tall and 5 - 125 centimeters (2 - 50 inches) in diameter; these grass stems get used as fencing, plumbing and other building materials. Culm sheaths (tubular coverings) are hairless or with red bristles.
- Leaf sheath is covered with bristles. Leaf blades are "deciduous at the ligule"; blades 5 - 20 centimeters (2 - 8 inches) long.
- Flowers
- Branched cluster of flowers in solitary spikes which can be dense or loose and are 5 - 15 centimeters (2 - 6 inches) long.
- Roots
- Short rhizomes described as pachymorph (a term which is recommended for describing rhizomes which are sympodial or superposed in such a way as to imitate a simple axis, but the word pachymorph would not be used for describing branches or in the case of bamboos, culms).
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