Chusquea abietifolia Griseb.
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Authority
Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.
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Family
Poaceae
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Scientific Name
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Description
Description - Small bamboo, creeping or climbing, attaining 5-10 m in length, forming dense thickets. Culms cylindrical, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, strong, scabrous when young, becoming smooth when mature, the internodes 6-14 cm long, the nodes with numerous minute whorled branches, 4-10 cm long, these with 15-40 leaves. Leaves alternate, overlapping, narrowly lanceolate, 15-30 x 2-3 mm, the apex acute, the margins ciliate, scabrous; the outer ligule ca. 0.2 mm long, the inner ligule ca. 0.5 mm long; pseudostipules ca. 1 mm long. Inflorescences of few-flowered panicles, ca. 5 cm long. Spikelets 5.5-7 mm long, short-pedicellate; glumes oblong, short-aristate, the lower ones 1-1 .5 mm long, the upper ones 3-5 mm long; sterile flowers oblong-lanceolate, 6-7 mm long; fertile flowers lanceolate-ovate, 5.5-6.5 mm long, pubescent and ciliate at the apex; palea ca. 5 mm long.
Phenology - Not observed.
Conservation Status - Native, very rare.