Fargesia denudata T. P. Yi

The shoots are fragrant and are eaten by the giant panda.

Rhizome neck 4–13 cm, 7–10 mm in diam., internodes 2–8 mm. Culms 3–5 m, 0.6–1.3 cm in diam.; internodes terete, 15–18 cm, smooth, initially slightly white powdery; wall 2–3 mm thick; nodes with level or prominent supra-nodal ridge on branching nodes; sheath scar prominent. Branches 4–15 per node, slender. Culm sheaths deciduous, light yellow, oblong-ovate, ca. 2/3 as long as internodes, leathery, glabrous, longitudinal ribs conspicuous; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule truncate, ca. 0.7 mm, glabrous; blade reflexed, linear or linear-triangular, glabrous. Leaves 2–5 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule truncate or arcuate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; blade linear-lanceolate or lanceolate, 7–11 × 0.4–1 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 3- or 4-paired, transverse veins distinct, base cuneate or broadly cuneate, margins smooth or spinescent-serrulate initially. Inflorescence racemose, subtended by 1–4 purple spathes; spikelets 5–10, 1.5–2.5 cm, unilateral, rachilla internodes 0.5–1 mm; florets 2–4. Glumes narrowly lanceolate, papery, abaxially puberulous at apex; lemma ovate-lanceolate, puberulous, apex mucronate to long mucronate; palea keels serrulate, apex bifid; lodicules ovate. Anthers yellow. Ovary ovoid, glabrous; style 1; stigmas 3. Caryopsis ovoid. New shoots May.

S Gansu, N Sichuan.

* 1900–3200 m.

Fargesia denudata là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được T.P.Yi mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1985.

缺苞箭竹（学名：Fargesia denudata）为禾本科箭竹属下的一个种。