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 Gigantochloa rostrata  K.M.Wong

Synonyms	:	Gigantochloa maxima minor Holttum
Family	:	Poaceae
Distribution	:	Asia-tropical: Malesia.
Habitat	:	Not Known
Uses	:	The culms are used whole for building huts and are split for making baskets
Key Botanical Characters  : Gigantochloa rostrata is an evergreen, perennial, loosely clump-forming bamboo growing 4 - 8 metres tall. The thick-walled, erect, woody culms are 20 - 35mm in diameter with internodes 15 - 30cm Synflorescence bractiferous; clustered at the nodes; in untidy tufts; with glumaceous subtending bracts; with axillary buds at base of spikelet;. Caryopsis with adherent pericarp;