Notes

Bamboo in somewhat disturbed patch of cloud forest with broad-leaved trees, including Quercus, Symplocos, Eugenia, Drimys, Weinmannia, Cleyera, tree ferns, and many epiphytes such as Tillandsia. Bamboo in clumps, dominant in places, usually growing in quebradas where there is always running water, virtually the whole population in flower, only two vegetative clumps seen, new shoots seen in varios clumps, but these dead and rotting. Culms hollow; branches of main culms verticillate, one branch larger about 3-4X the smallest branches, this usually flanked by 1-2 buds/branches intermediate in zise, about 2-3X the smallest ones. Larger branches rebranching extensively, smaller branches rebranching to a lesser extent. Inflorescences terminal to each axis, paniculiform, each subtended directly by usually one bract, this dried out by anthesis, inflorescences at anthesis in nearly the whole population, most brances still with leaves. Stamens 3 , anthers yellow; stigmas 2, white, feathery. N. v: "carrizo". Publicada en: Syst. Bot. 22(2): 225-227. 1997.