Bambusa stenoaurita (W. T. Lin) T. H. Wen

Bambusa stenoaurita may be more appropriately placed in Dendrocalamus.

This species is cultivated in some areas of Guangdong for its shoots.

Culms pendulous, to 10 m, ca. 7 cm in diam.; internodes 22–32 cm, glabrous; wall ca. 1 cm thick; nodes flat. Branches several from middle nodes of culms, central slightly dominant. Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery, initially brown spiny-strigose; auricles reflexed, linear, small; ligule ca. 3 mm, serrulate; blade recurved or reflexed, triangular, base ca. 1/3 as wide as sheath apex. Leaf sheaths subglabrous; auricles absent or minute, with or without few oral setae; ligule truncate, 0.5–1 mm; blade oblong-lanceolate, 13–25 × 2–2.5 cm. Pseudospikelets 2–2.5 cm; bracts 1 or 2; florets ca. 6; rachilla not disarticulating, internodes ca. 2 mm. Glumes 1 or 2, ciliate; lemma 1–1.2 cm; palea about as long as lemma; lodicules 3, ca. 3.5 mm, ciliate. Anthers 8–10 mm. Ovary ovoid; styles 3–4 mm; stigmas (1 or)2–4. Caryopsis unknown. New shoots Jul–Oct.

* River valleys. Guangdong.

Sinocalamus stenoauritus W. T. Lin, Bull. Bot. Lab. N.-E. Forest. Inst., Harbin 1980(6): 89. 1980; Dendrocalamopsis stenoaurita (W. T. Lin) P. C. Keng ex W. T. Lin; Neosino-calamus stenoauritus (W. T. Lin) W. T. Lin.