Schizostachyum funghomii McClure

The culms are used for making paper pulp and are split for weaving. The species is also grown as an ornamental.

Culms erect, to 12 m, 4–10 cm in diam., apically suberect; internodes terete, straight, to 67 cm, scabrous, white powdery, initially often strigose; wall ca. 3 mm. Branches 50–70 cm. Culm sheaths tardily deciduous, straw-colored, white powdery, with stiff, pale yellow hairs, margins glabrous, apex truncate or slightly concave; auricles inconspicuous; oral setae many, ca. 5 mm; ligule truncate, short, 1–2 mm, glabrous, margin lobed, with fimbriae 3–5 mm; blade reflexed, linear-lanceolate, less than 1/2 length of sheath, abaxially glabrous, apex acuminate. Leaves 6–9 per ultimate branch; sheaths often white powdery; auricles inconspicuous; oral setae numerous, 5–6 mm; blade oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 20–30 × 2.5–4 cm. Pseudospikelets terete, ca. 3 cm, white villous; prophylls oblong-obovate, 5–7 mm, papery, apex obtuse, keels 2, ciliate; bracts 1 to several, oblong, 6–15 mm, papery, many veined, apex obtuse to acute and mucronate; florets 1 or 2, terminal floret usually fertile; rachilla disarticulating. Glumes absent; lemma oblong-lanceolate, 1.5–1.7 cm, densely white-villous, strongly involute, many veined, apex scabrous, acute, mucronate, mucro ca. 2 mm. Palea to 2.6 cm, base spirally involute, papery, distally obviously grooved, nearly glabrous, white ciliate, many veined, apex bifid (fertile spikelets) or unequally 2-keeled (sterile spikelets); lodicules absent. Filaments to 1.8 cm, bases usually connate in pairs; anthers yellow-brown, to 1.2 cm. Ovary glabrous, shortly stalked; style pale yellow; stigmas 3, purple, plumose. Fruit unknown. New shoots Jul–Aug.

* Hills, forests, cultivated near villages. Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan.

Schizostachyum subvexorum Q. H. Dai & D. Y. Huang.