MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MB002 : Dendrocalamus strictus (Roxb.) Nees |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Bamboo | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Poaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bamboo, Calcutta bamboo, hard bamboo, iron bamboo, male bamboo, solid bamboo, stone bamboo, bans, udha, velu; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Arundo hexandra Roxb. ex Munro [Invalid] Bambos stricta Roxb. Bambusa glomerata Royle ex Munro [Invalid] Bambusa hexandra Roxb. ex Munro [Invalid] Bambusa pubescens Lodd. ex Lindl. Bambusa stricta (Roxb.) Roxb. Bambusa stricta var. argentea Rivière Bambusa tanaea Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. [Invalid] Bambusa verticillata Rottler ex Munro [Invalid] Dendrocalamus prainiana Varmah & Bahadur [Invalid] Dendrocalamus strictus var. prainianus Gamble Nastus strictus (Roxb.) Sm. |
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| Description : | It is a tall, dull long green-colored bamboo species, which grows in thickets consisting of a large number of heavily branched, closely growing culms. It reaches a height of 6-18 m. Culms are green covered with white blooms, which become dull green when mature and turn brown on drying. Young shoots are brown in color covered with white blooms. Culms are straight. Branching occurs from the base to midculm. Aerial roots reach up to a few nodes above the ground. Internode length is 20-30 cm, and diameter is 2.5-12 cm. Culm walls are very thick. Nodes are not prominent. Culm sheaths are green in young, and turn brown when mature, and are cylindrical. The sheath proper is 18-22 cm in length and 10-17 cm wide. Blade length is 3.5-6.5 cm. Auricles are absent. Upper surfaces of the sheath may or may not be covered with brown hairs. Lower surfaces of the sheath are not hairy. Sheaths fall early. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Dendrocalamus strictus is extensively used as raw material in paper mills and also for a variety of purposes such as light construction, furniture, musical instruments, bamboo board, mats, sticks, agricultural implements, rafts, baskets, woven wares and household utensils. Young shoots are edible and used as food. Leaves are used as forage, and decoction of leaves and nodes and silicious matter is used in traditional medicine. Silicious matter found near the joints is used as a cooling, tonic and astringent medicine. Leaves are ecbolic to animals. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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