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硬头青竹Phyllostachys veitchiana Beudle

硬头青竹Phyllostachys veitchiana Beudle

别名:龙竹;

科名:禾本科 Gramineae

属名:刚竹属 Phyllostachys

《中国植物志》第9(1)卷302页
  42.硬头青竹(四川农学院学报)图版86:9-10
  Phyllostachys veitchiana Rendle in Journ. Linn.Soc.Bot. 36: 443.1904——P. rigida X. Jiang et Q. Li in Journ. Sichuan Agr. Coll. 2 (2): 127. 1984.
  竿高3-5米,粗1-2.5厘米,幼竿被白粉并疏生短柔毛;节间一般长20-22厘米,壁厚3-5毫米;节处隆起,竿环高于箨环,节内长4毫米。箨鞘背面绿色具紫色纵条纹,被白粉,基部箨鞘混生有灰白色或淡褐色柔毛及长短不一的短硬毛,其余的箨鞘则近于无毛或无毛,边缘生长短不齐的纤毛;箨耳紫色,三角形、阔镰形至镰形,斜上举,与箨片基部明显相连、边缘饰以弯曲的繸毛;箨舌紫色,拱形,长约2-3毫米,边缘呈啮蚀状,密生长为2-3毫米并带紫色的粗纤毛;箨片三角形至狭三角形,直立或外倾,紫色或绿紫色,微呈波状。末级小枝具1或2叶;无叶耳,有鞘口繸毛数条,直立;叶舌边缘具粗纤毛;叶片线形或阔线形,长8-14厘米,宽1.2-1.8厘米。花枝为稍紧密的头状或短穗状,其下托以5-6片逐渐增大的鳞片状苞片,后者薄革质,边缘密生纤毛;佛焰苞生于花枝下部者为广卵形,愈向枝的上部则愈狭,叶耳及鞘口继毛俱缺,叶舌明显,缩小叶极小,锥状或三角形,每片佛焰苞腋内具假小穗1或2枚;小穗通常具4或5朵小花;小穗轴易自颖之上及诸小花之间脱节:颖1或2片,大小多变化,通常较外稃为狭,多少呈膜质,被长柔毛,先端渐尖呈芒状;外稃狭披针形,除基部外密被长柔毛,有不明显的多脉,背部具脊,顶部渐尖呈短芒状,第一小花的外稃长12-14毫米,其内俘及雌雄蕊常发育不良而极小,其余小花的内稃短于外稃,具长柔毛,顶端2裂;鳞被匙形,上端具细纤毛;花药长6毫米;子房三棱形,花柱1,柱头3。果实未见。笋期5月,花期5-6月。
  产湖北西部及四川。模式标本采自湖北西部。
  竹竿坚实挺直,质地优良,可作家具或劈篾编织均可。
  本种原系根据一花枝标本发表,此花枝及叶枝仅具1或2叶的特征与四川名山、灌县等地所产的被命名为P. rigida X. Jiang et Q. Li者极相似,故将P. rigida作为本种的异名。本种与贵州刚竹P. guizhouensis C. S. Chao et J. Q. Zhang很相似,但本种的地下茎具一圈明显的通气道、竿中部的箨鞘无刺毛、末级小枝具1或2叶等特征可以与之相区别。
形态特征:竿高3—5米,粗1-2.5厘米,幼竿被白粉并疏生短柔毛;节间一般长20—22厘米.壁厚3—5毫米;节处隆起,竿环高于箨环,节内长4毫米。箨鞘背面绿色具紫色纵条纹,被白粉,基部箨鞘混生有灰白色或淡褐色柔毛及长短不一的短硬毛,其余的箨鞘则近于无毛或无毛,边缘生长短不齐的纤毛;箨耳紫色,三角形、阔镰形至镰形,斜上举,与箨片基部明显相连、边缘饰以弯曲的缝毛;箨舌紫色,拱形,长约2—3毫米,边缘呈啮蚀状,密生长为2—3毫米并带紫色的粗纤毛;箨片三角形至狭三角形,直立或外倾,紫色或绿紫色,微呈波状。末级小枝具1或2叶;无叶耳,有鞘口燧毛数条,直立;叶舌边缘具粗纤毛;叶片线形或阔线形,长8—14厘米,宽1.2—1.8厘米。花枝为稍紧密的头状或短穗状,其下托以5—6片逐渐增大的鳞片状苞片,后者薄革质,边缘密生纤毛;佛焰苞生于花枝下部者为广卵形,愈向枝的上部则愈狭,叶耳及鞘口缝毛俱缺,叶舌明显,缩小叶极小,锥状或三角形,每片佛焰苞腋内具假小穗1或2枚;小穗通常具4或5朵小花;小穗轴易自颖之上及诸小花之间脱节:颖1或2片,大小多变化,通常较外稃为狭,多少呈膜质,被长柔毛,先端渐尖呈芒状;外稃狭披针形,除基部外密被长柔毛,有不明显的多脉,背部具脊,顶部渐尖呈短芒状,第一小花的外稃长12—14毫米,其内稃及雌雄蕊常发育不良而极小,其余小花的内稃短于外柠,具长柔毛,顶端2裂;鳞被匙形,上端具细纤毛;花药长6毫米;子房三棱形,花柱1,柱头3。果实未见。笋期5月,花期5—6月。
用    途:竹竿坚实挺直,质地优良,可作家具或劈篾编织均可。
产地分布:产湖北西部及四川。模式标本采自湖北西部。
本种提示:本种原系根据一花枝标本发表,此花枝及叶枝仅具1或2叶的特征与四川名山、灌县等地所产的被命名为P.RigidaX.JiangetQ.Li者极相似,故将P.Rigida作为本种的异名。本种与贵州刚竹P·guizhouensisC.S.ChaoetJ.Q.Zhang很相似,但本种的地下茎具一圈明显的通气道、竿中部的箨鞘无刺毛、末级小枝具1或2叶等特征可以与之相区别。
参考文献:PhyllostachysveitchianaRendleinJourn.Linn.Soc.Bot.36:443.1904.——P.RigidaX.JiangetQ.LiinJourn.SichuanAgr.Coll.2(2):127.1984.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Phyllostachys veitchiana  Rendle
硬头青竹   ying tou qing zhu
Phyllostachys rigida X. Jiang & Q. Li.
Culms 3–5 m, 1–2.5 cm in diam.; internodes dark green, commonly 20–22 cm, initially thickly white powdery, sparsely puberulent; wall 3–5 mm thick; nodes elevated, nodal ridge more prominent than sheath scar; intranode ca. 4 mm. Culm sheaths green, with purple or yellow stripes, white powdery, basal ones white or brown pubescent and strigose, others subglabrous or glabrous, margins irregularly ciliate; auricles ascendant, purple, triangular to broadly falcate, connected with base of blade; oral setae flexuose; ligule purple, arcuate, 2–3 mm, erose, densely fringed with stout, purple cilia 2–3 mm; blade erect or deflexed, purple to green-purple, triangular to narrowly triangular, slightly wavy. Leaves 1 or 2 per ultimate branch; auricles absent; oral setae several, erect; ligule with thick cilia; blade 8–14 × 1.2–1.8 cm. Flowering branchlets capitate or subcapitate; scaly bracts 5 or 6, thinly leathery, margins densely ciliate; basal spathes broadly ovate, distal spathes narrowed; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule conspicuous; blade subulate or triangular. Pseudospikelets 1 or 2 per spathe. Spikelets usually with 4 or 5 florets. Glumes 1 or 2, variably sized, usually narrower than lemma, ± membranous, pubescent, apex acuminate with an awnlike point; rachilla disarticulating below each fertile floret; lemma narrowly lanceolate, pubescent except at base, inconspicuously many veined, dorsally keeled, apex acuminate, awnlike. Lemmas 1.2–1.4 cm, basal one sterile and subtending a very small palea and depauperate flower; palea shorter than lemma, pubescent, apex 2-cleft; lodicules oblanceolate, apex ciliolate. Anthers ca. 6 mm. Ovary 3-ribbed. New shoots May, fl. Apr–May.
* Mountain slopes; below 1300 m. Hubei, Sichuan, introduced in Zhejiang.
This species is similar to Phyllostachys guizhouensis at first sight, but differs in having rhizomes with a ring of air canals in transverse section, mid-culm sheaths without strigose hairs, and 1 or 2 leaves per ultimate branch.

The straight, solid culms are used in making furniture or are split for weaving bamboo articles.

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