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Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro

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Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro (1867)
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro

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Exotic
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New Zealand
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(Lodd.) Munro
Lodd.
Munro
1867
ICN
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Phyllostachys nigra

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nigra

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Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro

Open thicket-forming with rhizomes running extensively. Culm 4-7 m (often much taller in cultivation), green, remaining so or becoming black or heavily blotched black in 2nd year, erect, with white waxy ring beneath nodes when young; nodes all ± evenly spaced. Culm-sheaths uniformly purple or purple-flushed, sometimes dark blotched above; auricles on main shoots prominent, dark; oral bristles long, caducous; sheath-blade linear, undulate. Branches green or black, spreading widely (giving an open network). Leaf-sheath with very short auricles. Oral bristles present. Leaf-blade usually 5-9-(13)× 0.5-2-(3) cm, lanceolate, abaxially glaucescent, adaxially moderately shining, acuminate.

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Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro

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Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro
New Zealand
Gisborne Land District
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro
New Zealand
North Auckland Land District
Phyllostachys nigra (Lodd.) Munro
New Zealand
South Auckland Land District

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1 January 2000
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