Himalayacalamus Keng f.
by W.R. Sykes
Type species: H. falconeri (Munro) Keng f.
Small to medium-sized bamboos with short sympodial rhizomes, forming a dense clump. Culm-internodes hollow, terete, rather slender, nodes not very prominent. Culm-sheaths tardily deciduous, ≈ internodes, glabrous, ± concolorous, broad and little narrowed distally; margins hairy. Leaf-sheath without auricles and oral bristles. Ligule pubescent. Leaf-blade not obviously tessellate. Inflorescence a large racemose panicle or raceme. Spikelets 1-(2)-flowered, one pedicelled, the other sessile. Glumes 2, strongly 4-8-nerved. Stamens 3. Stigmas 3.
7 spp. in the Himalaya. Naturalised sp. 1.
The genus Himalayacalamus was described by Keng, P.C. J. Bamboo Res. 2(1): 23 (1983), based on Thamnocalamus falconeri Munro which was previously also commonly referred to as Arundinaria falconeri (Munro) Benth. et Hook.f.
