Arundinaria patula Pilg.
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Authority
Hitchcock, Albert S. 1927. The grasses of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-xx, 291-556.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
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Description - A tall bamboo, the culms as much as 3 cm. thick at base; blades ovate lanceolate, as much as 20 cm. long and 7 cm. wide, the mouth and margin of the sheath long-fimbriate; panicle very open and diffuse, as much as 40 cm. long, the branchlets slender, bearing a single spikelet as much as 2 cm. long; lemmas bearing an awn as much as 4 mm. long.