Drepanostachyum falcatum is a species of bamboo from the Drepanostachyum genus that occur in the forested regions of the Himalayas and parts of Indochina in temperate and subtropical biomes.
Description It is a gregarious shrub with annual culms reaching between 2 to 3.5 metres high and 7 to 15 mm in diameter, culm sheaths are of straw color and are as long or longer than the internodes being up to 30 cm long and 7.5 cm wide at the base. Internode length is 15 to 30 cm long; leaf blades are 7.5 to 10 cm long and 5 to 8 mm wide. The caryopsis is linear and measures 12 mm long.Arundinaria falcata Nees in Linnaea. 9:478. 1834. Gamble, Bambuseae Brit. Ind. 12, t.11, 12. 1896; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. Ind. 7:381. 1896; Parker, For. Fl. Punj. 529. 1918; Sultan & Stewart, Grasses W. Pak. 2:155. 1959. Flora of Pakistan
Distribution They occur from the Himalayas eastwards of the Ravi River through Pakistan, India, Nepal, the Eastern Himalayas and down to Indochina in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. They are found in shaded ravines under oaks, firs and mixed forests.
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