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Rhipidocladum pittieri

Botanic Family

Poaceae

Author

(Hack.) McClure

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Chiapas - Mexico
• Nicaragua

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• disturbed forest
• riverside

Flowering Times

• Feb
• Apr
• Jul
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Aug

Perennial climbing rhizomatous bamboo, woody culms to 10m, purple culm-sheaths hairy on margins, leaves to 120mm x 16mm. Terminal racemes to 100mm long of pale green flowers, spikelets to 22mm long, lower glumes 4.5mm long, upper glumes to 6.7mm long, lower lemma to 7.9mm long, coriaceous fertile lemma to 11mm long

Further References

• Mobot
• The Plant List 2
• Kew