Bashania qingchengshanensis Keng fil. & T. P. Yi

Bashania aristata Y. Ren et al. (Novon 13: 473. 2003) and B. baoxingensis T. P. Yi (J. Bamboo Res. 19(1): 9. 2000) are possibly synonyms of this species.

The culms are used for pen and brush holders, abacus frames, and chopsticks. This species is also cultivated as an ornamental.

Culms 2–4 m, 0.3–0.7(–1) cm in diam.; internodes deep green, 40–45(–56) cm, glabrous, distally waxy-powdery, solid or subsolid; nodes weakly prominent, glabrous; intranode 3–5 mm; sheath scar prominent, densely setose. Culm sheaths dark green or purple-green, setose, margins distally ciliolate; ligule purple, truncate or arcuate, less than 1 mm; auricles absent; oral setae 3–5, 3–4 mm; blade persistent, dark green, triangular-lanceolate, basally setose, striate, margins serrulate. Leaves 1–3 per ultimate branch; sheath green, sometimes purple, glabrous; auricles deciduous, green, elliptic, margin ciliate; ligule light green, truncate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; petiole 3–4 mm, glabrous; blade lanceolate, 22–32 × 2.4–3.8 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 6–8-paired, base cuneate, margin serrulate, apex acuminate. Inflorescence paniculate, 6–10 cm. Spikelets 5–15; pedicel 2–12 mm, densely setose; rachilla internodes 3–5 mm, densely setose; florets 6–14. Glumes setose, long mucronate; lemma ovate, setose, margins ciliolate, long mucronate; palea 2-cleft, 2-keeled, with 2 or 3 veins between keels, 2 veins beside keels, margin ciliolate; lodicules purple-red, rhombic-ovate, membranous, transparent, margins densely ciliolate. Anthers purple, glabrous. Ovary ellipsoid, glabrous; style 1; stigmas 2, white, plumose. Caryopsis slightly curved, brown, ellipsoid, 7–8 × 2–2.5 mm, glabrous, apex acute, suture elongated. New shoots Apr, fl. Apr, fr. May.

Sichuan (Guanxian, Qonglai).

* Hardwood forests; 800–1200 m.

Bashania qingchengshanensis P. C. Keng & T. P. Yi, J. Nanjing Univ., Nat. Sci. Ed. 1982(3): 728. 1982.

Arundinaria qingchengshanensis là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được (Keng f. & T.P.Yi) D.Z.Li mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 2005.