Fargesia albocerea Hsueh & T. P. Yi

Culms 3–4 m, 0.8–2 cm in diam.; internodes terete, 8–14 cm, rigid, densely white powdery, glabrous, nearly solid; nodes waxy, supra-nodal ridges prominent to greatly so; sheath scar prominent to very prominent. Branches 3–5 per node, deflexed; buds yellow-brown, ovoid, area near to margins puberulous. Culm sheaths gradually deciduous, triangularly narrowly rounded, leathery, brown setose, longitudinal ribs prominent, margins glabrous, apex triangular; auricles absent or obscure; oral setae few, erect, yellow-brown, 1.5–4 mm; ligule nearly truncate, 1–1.5 mm, glabrous; blade readily deciduous, reflexed, linear-lanceolate, proximally slightly pilose. Leaves 3 or 4 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous; auricles absent or obscure; oral setae scarce, yellow-brown, short; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; blade lanceolate, 3.5–8 × 0.5–1.2 cm, both surfaces glabrous, secondary veins 3–5-paired, transverse veins elongated-tessellate, dense, not very distinct, base nearly rounded or broadly cuneate, margins spinescent-serrulate, apex long acuminate. Inflorescence unknown.

W Yunnan.

* About 2900 m.

Borinda albocerea (Hsueh & T. P. Yi) Stapleton; Fargesia pachyclada Hsueh & C. M. Hui.

Fargesia albocerea is a species of bamboo in the family Poaceae, native to western Yunnan province in China. As its synonym Borinda albocerea it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental.

Fargesia albocerea là một loài thực vật có hoa trong họ Hòa thảo. Loài này được Hsueh & T.P.Yi mô tả khoa học đầu tiên năm 1988.