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Arundinaria tecta

switch cane
Rhizomes

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

leaves: abaxial ligules fimbriate to lacerate, sometimes ciliate;

blades 7-23 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, coriaceous, persistent, evergreen, bases rounded, abaxial surfaces densely pubescent or glabrous, strongly cross veined, adaxial surfaces pubescent.
Spikelets

3-5 cm, with 6-12 florets, the first occasionally sterile.
Glumes

unequal, glabrous or pubescent;

lowest glume obtuse to acuminate or absent;

lemmas 1.2-2 cm, glabrous or nearly so.
Caryopses

oblong, beaked, a rudimentary hooked style branch present below the beak.
Culm(s)

leaves persistent to tardily deciduous;

sheaths 11-18 cm;

fimbriae 1.5-8.5 mm;

blades 2.5-4 cm.
Topknots

of 9-12 leaves;

blades 20-30 cm long, 1.8-3.2 cm wide, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate.
Primary

branches usually 50+ cm, basally erect and distally arcuate, terete, with 3-4 compressed basal internodes, basal nodes developing secondary branches, lower elongated internodes terete in cross section.
2n

= unknown.

Arundinaria tecta
Distribution
from FNA
AL; AR; FL; GA; LA; MD; MS; NC; NJ; NY; OK; PA; SC; TN; TX; VA
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Discussion

Arundinaria tecta grows in swampy woods, moist pine barrens, live oak woods, and along the sandy margins of streams, preferring moister sites than A. gigantea. It grows only on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States.

(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. appalachiana, A. gigantea
Synonyms A. gigantea subsp. tecta
Name authority (Walter) Muhl.
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