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Arundinaria appalachiana

Hill cane
Rhizomes

normally horizontal for only a short distance before turning up to form a culm, sometimes hollow-centered, air canals sometimes present.
Foliage

leaves: abaxial ligules glabrous or ciliate, fimbriate or lacerate;

blades 5-20 cm long, 0.8-2 cm wide, chartaceous, deciduous, bases rounded, abaxial surfaces pilose or glabrous, weakly cross veined, adaxial surfaces pilose.
Spikelets

3-5.5 cm, usually somewhat reddish purple, with 5-8 florets.
Culm(s)

leaves persistent to tardily deciduous;

sheaths 5.5-11 cm;

fimbriae 1-4.6 mm;

blades 0.8-1.4 cm.
Topknots

of 6-12 leaves;

blades 9-22.5 cm long, 1.4-2.8 cm wide, linear, linear-lanceolate, or ovate-lanceolate.
Primary

branches usually shorter than 35 cm, erect, terete, with 2-5 compressed basal internodes, basal nodes not developing secondary branches.
2n

= unknown.

Arundinaria appalachiana
Distribution
from FNA
AL; GA; NC; SC; TN
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Discussion

Arundinaria appalachiana grows on moist to dry slopes and in seeps. It is restricted to the southern Appalachians and upper piedmont.

(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
Source FNA vol. 24, p. 18.
Parent taxa Poaceae > subfam. Bambusoideae > tribe Bambuseae > Arundinaria
Sibling taxa
A. gigantea, A. tecta
Name authority Triplett, Weakley & L.G. Clark
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