| Field notes | Clump cespitose, short rhizome. Culms 5-10 m long and 1 cm in diam., erect at base then climbing through vegetation. Internodes glabrous, cylindrical, thin-walled and cracking easily. Nodes glabrous, sheath scar prominent, nodal ridge very reduced or absent. Culm leaf; sheath very tardily deciduous, overlapping; blade asymmetrical, erect, persistent. Branching intravaginal, one main branch that is long and rebranches, with 7-10 subsidiary ones, appressed. Foliage nor very dense. In flower sporadically. Culm emits a pepsin odor when crushed. Comprises a large part of the forest understory. |
