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Sacred Bali bamboo (Schizostachyum brachycladum)

Dlium Sacred Bali bamboo (Schizostachyum brachycladum)

Sacred bali bamboo (Schizostachyum brachycladum) is a species of plant in the Poaceae, growing upright, tightly clumped, bright green or yellow or green bamboo shoots and covered with brown miang hairs.

S. brachycladum has straight reeds, 8-15 meters high with a curved tip, beginning to branch at 1.5 meters above the ground, many branches up to 25-30 slender stalks and approximately equal in size.







Segment length 35-50 cm, diameter 8-10 cm, wall thickness 4 mm. The outer surface is green or bluish green or yellow with a green stripe, usually covered by whitish hairs that fall off when old.

The reed midrib is stiff and does not fall off quickly, 12-27 cm wide, 18-35 cm long, covered with brown miang on the outside. The leaves of the reed midrib are triangular with a pointed tip and stiff, 4-18 cm long, 4-10 cm wide, erect, usually glabrous and heavily veined. The midrib ear is like a frame, 10 mm wide, 2.5-6 mm high with 4-8 mm long hairs, flat ligules and 2-3 mm high.

Leaves on twigs lanceolate, 20-40 cm long, 4-7 cm wide, hairy on the underside, bare on the top. Small leaf midrib, 1 mm high with 0.7 mm cilantro hairs. Ligula flat, 1 mm high and locos.

It grows wild in secondary forest or disturbed forest, rarely in primary forest, elevation 0-600 meters and is often found growing spontaneously on the sides of roads. The reeds are used to make roof coverings, water tubes, handicrafts, plant supports and glass. Bamboo shoots are edible, although a bit bitter.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Liliopsida
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Melocanninae
Genus: Schizostachyum Nees in C.F.P.von Martius, Fl. Bras. Enum. Pl. 2: 535 (1829)
Species: Schizostachyum brachycladum (Kurz ex Munro) Kurz in J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal, Pt. 2, Nat. Hist. 39: 89 (1870)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Melocanna zollingeri var. brachyclada Kurz ex Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 134 (1868)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Arundo cratium Oken in Allg. Naturgesch. 3(1): 422 (1841)
Melocanna brachyclada Kurz in J.E.Teijsmann & S.Binnendijk, Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor.: 20 (1866)
Schizostachyum brachycladum var. auriculatum Holttum in Gard. Bull. Singapore 16: 147 (1958)

PUBLICATIONS

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.

Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.

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

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

English: Sacred bali bamboo, Golden Bali bamboo, Balinese bamboo
Filipino: Buho, Kauayang buho
Indonesian: Bambu talang, Bambu bali, Bambu lemang
Java: Pring talang
Madura: Pĕrréng bulu, Pĕrréng lampar
Makassar: Bulo talang
Malaysia: Buloh lemang, Buloh silau, Buloh telang
Maluku: Buluh sero
Simeulue: Buluh nèhè
Sumatera: Buluh tolang
Sunda: Awi buluh

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