Dendrocalamus stocksii (Munro) M.kumar

• Habit
• Culms: Caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 2.5 - 4 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 15 - 30 cm
• Wall thickness: Solid
• Height: 6 - 9 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Gray, when young covered with dense white or gray deciduous tomentum; Culm-sheaths 15-22 cm long, pubescent, with deciduous appressed red hairs, hairy on margins, concave at apex, auriculate; Leaves 10-20 cm long and 1-2 cm broad, linear-lanceolate; Inflorescence a panicle of spicate heads with many closely packed spinous spikelets; Fruit a Caryopsis with adherent pericarp, hilum linear.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: India (Goa, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra), Vietnam
• Spacing for Cultivation:4 x 4 meter
• Uses: construction purposes, umbrella handles, basket making