Oreobambos
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| Oreobambos buchwaldii | |
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| Species: | O. buchwaldii
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| Oreobambos buchwaldii | |
Oreobambos buchwaldii K.Schum. is a monotypic African genus of bamboo. It is large and perennial with culms up to 20 m. tall, drooping and growing in isolated clumps, and is found along the tropical east coast of Africa in Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Uganda and Tanzania.
Lateral branches are dendroid. Sheaths are covered in appressed, dark brown hairs when young. Leaves are 10-35 x 2·5-6 cm., lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, and obscurely tessellate. Leaf-blade apex is acuminate, while the base is broadly rounded, with a small petiole-like connection to the sheath. Leaf-blades are deciduous at the ligule. Culm-internodes are hollow and 5-10 cm. in diameter. [1]