Arundinaria

• Authority

  Gleason, Henry A. & Cronquist, Arthur J. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada. lxxv + 910 pp.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Arundinaria

• Description

  Genus Description - Spikelets many-fld, elongate, the rachilla disarticulating between the lemmas; glumes unequal, distant, shorter than the lemmas, these lanceolate, 11–17- veined, about equaling the 2-keeled paleas; lodicules 3, relatively well developed; stamens 3; stigmas 3; woody perennials with slender, hollow culms, freely branched after the first year; lvs linear or lanceolate, with evident cross-veins, tapering to a petiole and articulated with the sheath; spikelets large, in loose racemes or panicles. 150 (depending on generic circumscription), warm reg.

• Common Names

  cane