8. HIMALAYACALAMUS
Clump-forming thornless bamboos up to 8m tall, found from 1,800m to 2,500m in cool broadleaved forest, and also widely cultivated. They have single flowers, short buds, and 1540 branches. Leaves do not have the cross-veins seen in Thamnocalamus and Borinda species, and internodes are less than 40cm long, shorter than those of most species of Cephalostachyum and Teinostachyum. Although similar to species of Drepanostachyum, they differ in many ways. Branch buds at mid-culm nodes
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