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Key to Arundinaria

Poaceae

Arundinaria

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(c) Weakley, Alan - CC0
© Scott Ward
© Scott Ward
1 Primary branches with 0-1 compressed basal internodes (in the basalmost 1 cm or so); culm internodes usually sulcate (with a groove extending upward from the node, sometimes partly obscured by the branch); culm leaves deciduous; culms to 10 m tall; rhizomes lacking air canals; foliage leaf blades 0.8-1.3 cm wide
(c) Blomberg, Eric - CC-BY-NC-ND
(c) J. Kevin, England - C, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Blomberg, Eric - CC-BY-NC-ND
1 Primary branches with 2-5 compressed basal internodes (in the basalmost 1 cm or so); culm internodes usually terete; culm leaves persistent to tardily deciduous; culms to 4 m tall; rhizomes with or without longitudinal air canals (visible in cross-section as a cylinder of hollow canals 1 mm or less from the outer surface); foliage leaf blades 0.8-2 cm wide.
  2 Foliage blades coriaceous, persistent; lower leaf surfaces densely pubescent or glabrous, strongly tessellate; primary branches usually > 50 cm long
  2 Foliage blades chartaceous to subcoriaceous, deciduous; lower leaf surfaces pilose or glabrous, weakly tessellate; primary branches < 49 cm long.
    3 Primary branch basal nodes developing secondary branches; primary branches 12-49 cm long; foliage blade abaxial surfaces long pubescent; auricles present; top knot blades 9-37 cm long; [known from AL]
    3 Primary branch basal nodes not developing secondary branches; primary branches usually < 35 cm long; foliage blade abaxial surfaces sparsely pilose or glabrous; auricles absent; top knot blades 9-22.5 cm long; [AL north to e. TN and w. NC]