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Tali bamboo (Gigantochloa apus)

Dlium Tali bamboo (Gigantochloa apus)

Tali bamboo (Gigantochloa apus) is a plant species in Poaceae, the reeds grow upright and tall with a shady canopy in the colony and form very tight clusters, the leaves grow at the end of the stalk, widely used as raw material for making handicrafts.

G. apus grows in clumps, tight and erect. Bamboo shoots are green, covered with brown and black hairs. The reed is cylindrical, straight up, 22 meters high with a curved tip and begins to form branches at 1.5 m above the ground.



The reed outer surface is gray or light green or yellowish green, the inner surface is white or yellow or brown. The frond does not fall out quickly, is trapezoidal, green and turns yellowish brown, the outer side is covered with dark brown hairs which then fall out when the midrib dries.

The midrib is triangular in shape with a narrow base and curved back. The frond ears are like a frame. The ligula is serrated and locos. The leaves on the twigs are lanceolate, the underside is slightly hairy. The frond ears are small, rounded, and lokos. Ligules are flat and locos.

Inflorescences in panicles on leafy twigs in clusters of up to 30 spikelets on each internode. The spikelet is narrow ovoid, has 2-3 empty glumas and 3 perfect florets.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Bambusinae
Genus: Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 123 (1868)
Species: Gigantochloa apus (Schult.f.) Kurz ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 126 (1868)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Arundarbor apus (Schult.f.) Kuntze in Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 761 (1891)
Bambusa apus Schult.f. in J.J.Roemer & J.A.Schultes, Syst. Veg., ed. 15[bis]. 7: 1353 (1830)
Oxytenanthera apus (Schult.f.) E.G.Camus in Bambusées: 145 (1913)
Schizostachyum apus (Schult.f.) Steud. in Syn. Pl. Glumac. 1: 332 (1854)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Gigantochloa kurzii Gamble in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 7: 65 (1896)

PUBLICATIONS

Acevedo-Rodríguez, P. & Strong, M.T. (2012). Catalogue of seed plants of the West Indies. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98: 1-1192.

Ahmed, Z.U. (ed.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 12: 1-505. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Gilliland, H.B. (1971). A revised flora of Malaya 3: 1-319. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

Karthikeyan, S., Jain, S.K., Nayar, M.P. & Sanjappa, M. (1989). Florae Indicae Enumeratio: Monocotyledonae: 1-435. Botanical Survey of India, Calcutta.

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590.

Kumari, P., Singh, P. & Mao, A.A. (eds.) (2024). Flora of India 30: 1-334. Botanical Survey of India.

Nelson Sutherland, C.H. (2008). Catálogo de las plantes vasculares de Honduras. Espermatofitas: 1-1576. SERNA/Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. & Armstrong, K. (2007). A checklist of the vascular plants of Lao PDR: 1-394. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Nurtjahya, E. & al. (2026). Flowering Plants of Bangka Island: Native and Introduced. Acta Botanica Hungarica 68: 127-156.

VERNACULAR NAME

Bali: Tiying tali, Tiying tlantan
English: Tali bamboo, String bamboo
Indonesian: Bambu tali, Bambu apus
Java: Pring tali, Pring apus, Pring apĕs, Dĕling apus, Deling tangsul
Madura: Perrèng talè
Sunda: Awi tali

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