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Tibisia farcta

Botanic Family

Poaceae

Author

(Aublet) C.D. Tyrrell, Londoño & L.G. Clark

Propagation

S.

Common Names

• Old Man's Beard
• Climbing Bamboo

Geographical Habitats

• Bahamas
• Cuba
• French Guiana
• Hispaniola
• Leeward Islands
• Puerto Rico
• Virgin Islands - USA

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• forest edges
• thickets
• riverine forest
• shrubland

Flowering Times

Fruiting Times

Perennial rhzomatous high-climbing bamboo, scandent culms to 1.5m long, glabrous leaf sheaths, leaf blades glabrous to 300mm x 3mm. Terminal and axillary racemes to 70mm long, spikate inflorescence to 100mm long, spikelets to 15mm long, 1 sterile spikelet & 2-4 fertile spikes on each, klower glume 3mm long, upper glume 4mm long, fertile lemma 5mm long. Fruit has an adherent pericarp. Allegedly dies after flowering

A known weed

Further References

• RGB Kew Grassbase
• VOPR
• Kew
• SAFIO
• Plantae Wrightianae