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Arthrostylidium multispicatum

Botanic Family

Poaceae

Author

Pilger

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Cuba
• Hispaniola
• Puerto Rico
• Trinidad & Tobago
• Virgin Islands

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• montane areas
• primary forest

Flowering Times

• Dec (Puerto Rico)

Fruiting Times

Climbing bamboo, leaves to 200mm x 17mm, glabrous above & pubescent beneath, puberulent leaf sheath with setaceous appendages. Terminal spikate racemes to 120mm long with 5 spiculae & 5 flowers, 5 spikelets to 30mm long, glumes to 7mm long.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Kew
• SAFIO