Common Name : Nodding Bamboo

It is continuous and grows in small clumps. The culms are erect growing to lengths ranging from 600–1200cm in length and 40–70mm in diameter. They are woody with aerial roots from the nodes. The culm-internodes are cylindrical, with a small hollow, they are 35–45cm in length and medium green in coloration. The culm-nodes are smooth or hairy. The culm-sheath ligule is 2.5–5m in height and having tooth like projections in the margins. The culm sheath blade is 15–23cm in length, triangular in shape, hairy and ends sharply. The leaves grow on the upper parts of the stem. The leaf-sheaths have straited venation and are hairy. The leaf-sheath oral hairs are covered with thick hairs. The leaf sheath auricles are sickle shaped. The ligule is covered with hairs and is blunt. The collar has an external ligule. The base of the leaf-blade is connected with the sheath by a petiole like structure. The petiole is 0.3–0.5cm long. The leaf-blades are shaped sharply at the apex, 25–35mm in width, 15–30cm in length and are having a gland. The leaf blade midrib is conspicuous. There are 14–20 secondary veins on the leaf blade. The surface of the leaf-blade is mildly glabrous and hairy and it is hairy abaxially. The leaf-blade apex is shape and is curved upwards or forward. The inflorescence is bractiferous arranged in untidy tufts clustered at the nodes, they are clustered in untidy tufts and with a large sheath (spatheceous) covering the subtending bracts, at the base of the spikelet they have axillary buds and prophyllate below the lateral spikelets. Fertile Spikelets: The spikelets have diminished florets at the apex and comprise 3–5 fertile florets. The spikelets are tapering with a sharp head, they are partially cylindrical (subterete), measure about 17–25mm in length, they are disarticulating below each fertile floret and they break up at maturity. The internodes of the rachilla are club-shaped (clavate), definite, covered with soft fine hairs and they are hairy at tip. Glumes: Two to three empty glumes but there are several glumes. Florets: The fertile lemma are ovate, without keel and are 10 mm in length. The inner surface of the lemma is hairy, the lemmas has an abruptly ending apex. The apical sterile florets are underdeveloped. Flower: The lodicules are three, veined, hairy and membranous. The anthers number 6–7, the anther tip is apiculate. The stigmas are sparsely hairy and 2–3 in number. The ovary is sharp tipped resembling an umbrella (umbonate) and is hairy on the apex. Fruit: The fruit is oblong, hairy at the apex, caryopsis and with adherent pericarp.