13. YUSHANIA
Spreading thornless frost-hardy bamboos, forming dense thickets or covering large areas, with upright culms from 1m to 4m tall, found in temperate forests and open grazing areas, from 1,800m to 3,600m, often stunted by browsing livestock. Leaves have clear cross-veins, unlike the leaves of the subtropical spreading genera Melocanna and Pseudostachyum, which only have parallel veins. The culms are not prominently ridged as in Borinda, and the branches are fewer in number and more upright. The young culms of
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