- Family:
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus:
- Sasa Makino & Shibata
Sasa takizawana Makino & Uchida

[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
- Neosasamorpha iwatekensis (Makino & Uchida) Tatew.
- Neosasamorpha lasioclada (Makino & Nakai) Tatew.
- Neosasamorpha mirabunda (Koidz.) Koidz.
- Neosasamorpha nakashimana (Koidz.) Koidz.
- Neosasamorpha takizawana (Makino & Uchida) Tatew.
- Neosasamorpha takizawana subsp. nakashimana (Koidz.) Sad.Suzuki
- Sasa iwatekensis Makino & Uchida
- Sasa komoriana Koidz.
- Sasa lancifolia Koidz.
- Sasa lasioclada Makino & Nakai
- Sasa mirabunda Koidz.
- Sasa nakashimana Koidz.
- Sasa pachyphylla Koidz.
- Sasa setigera Koidz.
- Sasa spectabilis Makino & Nakai
- Sasa takizawana var. kumagaiana (Uchida) Murata
- Sasa takizawana var. lasioclada (Makino & Nakai) Sad.Suzuki
- Sasa takizawana subsp. nakashimana (Koidz.) Sad.Suzuki
- Sasamorpha nakashimana Koidz.
Sasa takizawana Makino & Uchida appears in other Kew resources:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan | K000975203 | Yes | |||
Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan | K000975205 | Yes | |||
Uchida, S. [s.n.], Japan | K000975204 | Yes |
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.
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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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
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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