7. DREPANOSTACHYUM
Clump-forming thornless bamboos, up to 5m tall, with very many branches from culms up to 1.5cm in diameter, found from 1,000m to 2,200m in subtropical forests, and also cultivated. Leaves have no cross-veins (fig. 30), and culm internodes are less than 40cm long. Branch buds at the nodes of the culms are shorter than their height, and are always open (fig. 31). The buds have many small initials visible, which will produce up to 70 branches at each node, about 25 growing in the first year. The branches are quite uniform in size and spread around the culm (fig. 32). When
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