Kinabaluchloa nebulosa (PROSEA)

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Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Kinabaluchloa nebulosa K.M. Wong

Family: Gramineae

Distribution

Sabah (Mt. Kinabalu, Crocker Range), Sarawak (Kelabit Highlands), and Brunei (Pagon Range).

Uses

The long, thin-walled internodes are used for making musical instruments ("sompoton" in Sabah, "engkrui" in Sarawak).

Observations

Open tufted, scrambling bamboo. Culm 10-20 m tall or more, lower part erect, upper part leaning or scrambling over nearby vegetation or drooping to the ground, diameter 1.5-2 cm, wall thin; internodes 40-80(-120) cm long, green with dark brown hairs when young, becoming glabrous. Culm sheath covered with black hairs; blade narrowly lanceolate. Leafy branches up to 60 cm long, bearing 9-17 leaf blades. Inflorescence borne on a leafy branch; pseudospikelets rigid, cylindrical. Found in lower montane forest.

Selected sources

11, 26.