Gigantochloa ridleyi (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Gigantochloa ridleyi Holttum

Family: Gramineae

• Indonesia: tiying kaas, tiying aya (Bali).

Found only in cultivation in Singapore, Peninsular Malaysia and Bali (Indonesia).

In Bali, culms are used for roofing. In Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia G. ridleyi is often planted as an ornamental.

Erect and densely tufted bamboo. Culm up to 18 m tall, diameter 10 cm; internodes 30-47 cm long with scattered dark brown hairs below the nodes. Culm sheath green with brownish-black appressed hairs on the back; blade triangular, erect; auricles small, rigid, bearing bristles 2 mm long. Leaf blade 40 cm × 8 cm, glabrous. In Bali found in the drier parts.

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