Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Aranya Van
About Dendrocalamus strictus Plant :
Habit : 8-10 m tall trees.
Stem :
7-17 m x 2.5-7.5 cm diameter, hollow in moist climates, solid in dry, young glaucous green, old yellowish, nodes swollen, lower often rooting, internodes, 30-45 cm, upper branches decurved.
Stem-sheaths variable, lower 7.5-30 cm glabrous or strigose with yellow brown hairs, striate, top rounded, ciliate, slightly auricled, blade triangular, hairy especially within, ligule narrow.
Leaves :
Deciduous, narrowed from the rounded petioled base to the twisted tip, midrib prominent, nerves 3-6 pairs with interposed pellucid glands, sheath striate hairy, callus prominent.
Auricle short ciliate with flexuous deciduous hairs; ligule narrow, serrate.
Inflorescence : Panicle large, heads dense, 2.5-3.7 cm, much smaller, rachis-smooth, internodes 3.7-5 cm.