Poaceae FAMILY

Ochlandra travancorica

Edibility

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Medicinal

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Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Ochlandra travancorica is a clump-forming, perennial bamboo with short rhizomes, producing erect culms 2 - 6 metres long. The woody culms are 25 - 50mm in diameter, the internodes terete, thin-walled, 45 - 60cm long, the culm-nodes swollen. The canes are commonly harvested from the wild for use in making mats, baskets, handicrafts etc. The plant is sometimes cultivated as a soil binder and source of materials[ 317 Title Mansfeld's Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Plants Publication Author Website http://mansfeld.ipk-gatersleben.de/pls/htmldb_pgrc/f?p=185:3:4292127278597336 Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Terse details of a huge range of useful plants. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeE. Asia - southern India.

HabitatAn undergrowth plant in the low level evergreen and semi evergreen forests. Pure patches which grow as impenetrable thickets are also found along the sides of rivers and streams where other tree species are not allowed to come up[ 361 Title Bamboos of India: A Compendium Publication Author Seethalakshmi K.K., Muktesh Kumar M.S. Website http://www.inbar.int/publication/txt/tr17/default.htm Publisher Brill. Year 2002 ISBN 8186247254 Description A very good book giving botanical descriptions of the plants with brief notes on subjects such as uses, habitat and range. It is also available to view on the Internet. ].