Oldeania alpina
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Oldeania alpina, the African alpine bamboo,[1] is a perennial[2] bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Oldeania.[1] It can be found growing in dense but not large stands[3] on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift[1] between 2,500 meters (8,200 feet)[3] and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) elevation.[4]
Description
- Stems and leaves
- 200 – 1,950 centimeters (6 – 64 feet) tall and 5 – 12.5 centimeters (2 – 5 inches) in diameter;[2] these grass stems get used as fencing,[3] plumbing and other building materials.[5] Culm sheaths (tubular coverings) are hairless or with red bristles.[2]
- Leaf sheath is covered with bristles. Leaf blades are "deciduous at the ligule"; blades 5 – 20 centimeters (2 – 8 inches) long.[2]
- Flowers
- Branched cluster of flowers in solitary spikes, which can be dense or loose and are 5–15 centimeters (2–6 inches) long.[2]
- Roots
- Short rhizomes described as pachymorph[2] (a term which is recommended for describing rhizomes which are sympodial or superposed in such a way as to imitate a simple axis, but the word pachymorph would not be used for describing branches or in the case of bamboos, culms).[6]
Distribution
References
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