Ampel bamboo (Bambusa vulgaris) is a plant species in Poaceae, grows in clumps and is not too tight, reeds are not perfectly straight, is green, the rhizomes have sympodial branches, providing many uses as building materials, paper raw materials, bamboo shoot vegetables and living fences.
B. vulgaris has yellow or green shoots, covered with brown to black hairs. The reed stands upright, 10-20 m high, straight or slightly zigzagged with a curved tip. The reed begins to branch 1.5 m above the ground with 2-5 branches on a knot, one larger than the other.
The segment has a length of 20-45 cm and a diameter of 4-10 cm, a thick reed wall 7-15 mm, the outer surface is shiny green with fallen hairs and dark, whitish wax coating when young. The boundary of the internodes is oblique, slightly protruding and the bottom has aerial roots.
The leaves on the twig are lanceolate, 6-30x1-4 cm and lokos. The frond ears are small and rounded, 0.5-1.5 mm high, and have a few spongy hairs 1-3 mm long. The ligula is almost flat, 0.5-1.5 mm high and locos.
Inflorescences in panicles, usually on leafless twigs or reeds or on small leaved reeds with small clusters of spikelets on each internode and separated for a distance of 2-6 cm. The spikelet is narrow ovoid, 12-19x4-5 mm, flattened on the sides, 5-10 florets perfect and one floret at the end.
TAXON
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Bambusinae
Genus: Bambusa Schreb. in Gen. Pl., ed. 8[a]. 1: 236 (1789)
Species: Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl. in Coll. Pl. 2: 26 (1808)
Subspecies: Bambusa vulgaris ssp. vittata, Bambusa vulgaris ssp. vulgaris
HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS
Leleba vulgaris (Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl.) Nakai in J. Jap. Bot. 9: 17 (1933)
HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS
Arundarbor blancoi (Steud.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 761 (1891)
Arundarbor fera (Oken) Kuntze (1891)
Arundarbor mitis (Lour.) Kuntze (1891)
Arundarbor monogyna (Blanco) Kuntze (1891)
Arundarbor striata (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Kuntze (1891)
Arundo fera Oken in Allg. Naturgesch. 3(1): 423 (1841)
Arundo mitis Lour. in Fl. Cochinch.: 57 (1790)
Bambos mitis (Lour.) Poir. in J.B.A.M.de Lamarck, Encycl. 8: 704 (1808)
Bambusa blancoi Steud. in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 331 (1854)
Bambusa fera (Oken) Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 3: 418 (1857)
Bambusa humilis Rchb. ex Rupr. in Bambuseae: 50 (1839)
Bambusa latiflora (Balansa) T.Q.Nguyen in Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 72: 829 (1987)
Bambusa madagascariensis Rivière & C.Rivière in Bull. Soc. Acclim. France, sér. 3, 5: 631 (1878)
Bambusa mitis (Lour.) Steud. in Nomencl. Bot. 1: 100 (1821)
Bambusa mitis Blanco in Fl. Filip.: 271 (1837)
Bambusa monogyna Blanco (1837)
Bambusa nguyenii Ohrnb. in Bamboos World Intro. 4: 19 (1997)
Bambusa sieberi Griseb. in Fl. Brit. W. I.: 528 (1864)
Bambusa striata Lodd. ex Lindl. in Penny Cyclop. 3: 357 (1835)
Bambusa surinamensis Rupr. (1839)
Bambusa thouarsii (Raspail) Kunth in Révis. Gramin. 1: 323 (1830)
Bambusa vulgaris var. aureovariegata Beadle in L.H.Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 1: 448 (1914)
Bambusa vulgaris var. latiflora Balansa in J. Bot. (Morot) 4: 30 (1890)
Bambusa vulgaris var. striata (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Gamble in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 7: 44 (1896)
Bambusa vulgaris var. vittata Rivière & C.Rivière (1878)
Bambusa vulgaris f. vittata (Rivière & C.Rivière) McClure in Fieldiana, Bot. 24(2): 60 (1955)
Bambusa vulgaris f. waminii T.H.Wen in J. Bamboo Res. 4(2): 16 (1985)
Bambusa wamin E.G.Camus in Bambusées: 135 (1913)
Leleba vulgaris var. striata (Lodd. ex Lindl.) Nakai (1933)
Nastus thouarsii Raspail in Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 5: 441, 442 (1825)
Nastus viviparus Raspail (1825)
Phyllostachys mitis (Lour.) Rivière & C.Rivière (1878)
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VERNACULAR NAME
Ambor: Domar
Bali: Tiying ampel, Tiying hampyal, Tiying puling
Burmese: ဝါနက် Wanet
Catalan: Bambú gros
Chinese (simplified): 龙头竹
Chinese (traditional): 龍頭竹 - 泰山竹 - 銀竹 - 金絲竹
English: Ampel bamboo, Common bamboo, Golden bamboo, Stripe bamboo, Painted bamboo
Filipino: Kauayan-kiling, Kabaloan, Butong
Finnish: Paperibambu
French: Bambou commun
Guangdong: 龍頭竹 - 銀竹 - 泰山竹
Hindi: बांस Bans
Hong Kong: 龍頭竹 - 銀竹 - 泰山竹
Indonesian: Bambu Ampel, Bambu aur
Italian: Bambù comune
Japanese: タイサンチク - ダイサンチク
Java: Pring ampel, Pring ampel kuning, Pring gadhing, Jajang ampel, Jajang gadhing
Lithuanian: Paprastasis bambukas
Macao: 龍頭竹 - 銀竹 - 泰山竹
Madura: Pĕrréng ampél, Pĕrréng ghadhing
Malayalam: Mula
Malaysia: Buloh minyak, Buloh kuning, Tamelang
Manipuri: Wa
Polish: Bambus zwyczajny
Portuguese: Bambu-comum, Bambu-listrado
Russian: Бамбук обыкновенный
Sasak: Tĕréng dèndèng
Slovak: Bambus obyčajný
Spanish: Bambú asiático
Sunda: Awi haur, awi haur geulis, awi haur koneng
Taiwan: 泰山竹 - 龍頭竹 - 銀竹
Tamil: மூங்கில் Moongil
Thai: ไผ่เหลือง
Turkish: Bambu
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