Family:
Poaceae Barnhart
Genus:
Sasa Makino & Shibata

Sasa takizawana Makino & Uchida

This species is accepted, and its native range is Japan (S. Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku).

[GB]
Morphology General Habit
Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 100-200 cm long; 4-7 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; thin-walled; distally glabrous, or pubescent. Culm-nodes glabrous, or pubescent. Lateral branches dendroid. Bud complement 1. Branch complement one; solitary; as thick as stem. Culm-sheaths persistent; glabrous; without auricles. Leaves 5-8 per branch. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath oral hairs lacking, or setose. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades oblong; 20-28 cm long; 35-60 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy abaxially. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; obovate; 12 cm long. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Spikelets
Spikelets comprising 5-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear; laterally compressed; 25-30 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes 3-4 mm long; pubescent.
Fertile
Spikelets comprising 5-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear; laterally compressed; 25-30 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes 3-4 mm long; pubescent.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences Bracts Glume
Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 5 mm long; scarious; without keels; 1-3 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent, or obscure. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 7 mm long; scarious; without keels; 5-7 -veined. Upper glume apex acuminate.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Florets
Fertile lemma ovate; 7-10 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 13 -veined. Lemma lateral veins with cross-veins. Lemma surface scaberulous. Lemma margins ciliolate. Lemma apex acuminate. Palea 6-9 mm long; 10 -veined. Palea keels ciliate. Palea apex with excurrent keel veins. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers
Lodicules 3; ovate; 2 mm long; veined; ciliate; acute. Anthers 6; 6 mm long. Stigmas 3.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; apex unappendaged.
Distribution
Asia-temperate: eastern Asia.
Reference
Bambuseae. Ind. Jap. Bam. 2001.

Native to:

Japan

Sasa takizawana Makino & Uchida appears in other Kew resources:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan K000975203
Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan K000975205
Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan K000975204

First published in J. Jap. Bot. 6: 22 (1929)

Accepted by

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Ohrnberger, D. (1999). The bamboos of the world : annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa: 1-585. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Ohrnberger, D. (1999). The bamboos of the world : annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa: 1-585. Elsevier, Amsterdam.

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0