乌哺鸡竹Phyllostachys vivax McClure
乌哺鸡竹Phyllostachys vivax McClure
19.乌哺鸡竹（江苏植物志）
Phyllostachys vivax McClure in Journ. Wash.Acad.Sci.35:292. f. 3. 1945.et in Agr. Handb. USDA No. 114:65. ff. 52,53. 1957;华东禾本科植物志309页.图334. 1962;江苏植物志,上册156页.图243. 1977;香港竹谱73页.1985;中国竹谱85页.1988;云南树木图志下册,1458页,图686. 1991.
《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Phyllostachys vivax McClure
乌哺鸡竹 wu bu ji zhu
Culms 5–15 m, 4–8 cm in diam., with weakly pendulous apex; internodes gray or yellow-green at maturity, conspicuously striate, 25–35 cm, initially thinly white powdery, glabrous; wall ca. 5 mm thick; nodes usually asymmetrical, nodal ridge usually more prominent than sheath scar on one side. Culm sheaths yellow-green tinged with purple, or pale brown-yellow, densely spotted and blotched with brown especially toward center; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule pale brown to brown, arcuate, strongly decurrent on both flanks, ciliolate; blade reflexed, abaxially brown-purple, adaxially green, marginally paler or faintly orange-colored, linear-lanceolate, strongly crinkled. Leaves 2 or 3 per ultimate branch, auricles and oral setae developed; ligule to 3 mm; blade slightly pendulous, 9–18 × 1.2–2 cm. Flowering branchlets spicate; scaly bracts 4–6, gradually larger; spathes 5–7, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, auricles small; oral setae radiate; blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, to 2.5 cm. Pseudospikelets 1 or 2 per spathe; spikelets 3.5–4 cm; florets 2 or 3, sparsely pubescent. Glume 1; lemma 2.7–3.2 cm, sparsely pubescent; palea 2.2–2.6 cm, subglabrous; lodicules narrowly lanceolate, ca. 5 mm. Anthers ca. 1.2 cm. Ovary glabrous; stigmas 3. New shoots Apr, fl. Apr–May.
* Widely cultivated. Fujian, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
This species is usually planted for shoot production and for the beautiful culms and elegant, drooping foliage of some cultivars. The culms are used for weaving articles and as handles of farm tools.
别名：鸟哺鸡竹;蚕哺鸡竹;凤凰竹;鸡笋;榉竹;麻哺鸡竹;凤竹;王莽竹;竹笋;乌爪头竹;乌桩头;雅竹;垂叶竹;墙竹;笋;笋（筍）;running giant bamboo;
科名：禾本科 Gramineae
属名：刚竹属 Phyllostachys
19.乌哺鸡竹（江苏植物志）
Phyllostachys vivax McClure in Journ. Wash.Acad.Sci.35:292. f. 3. 1945.et in Agr. Handb. USDA No. 114:65. ff. 52,53. 1957;华东禾本科植物志309页.图334. 1962;江苏植物志,上册156页.图243. 1977;香港竹谱73页.1985;中国竹谱85页.1988;云南树木图志下册,1458页,图686. 1991.
《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Phyllostachys vivax McClure
乌哺鸡竹 wu bu ji zhu
Culms 5–15 m, 4–8 cm in diam., with weakly pendulous apex; internodes gray or yellow-green at maturity, conspicuously striate, 25–35 cm, initially thinly white powdery, glabrous; wall ca. 5 mm thick; nodes usually asymmetrical, nodal ridge usually more prominent than sheath scar on one side. Culm sheaths yellow-green tinged with purple, or pale brown-yellow, densely spotted and blotched with brown especially toward center; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule pale brown to brown, arcuate, strongly decurrent on both flanks, ciliolate; blade reflexed, abaxially brown-purple, adaxially green, marginally paler or faintly orange-colored, linear-lanceolate, strongly crinkled. Leaves 2 or 3 per ultimate branch, auricles and oral setae developed; ligule to 3 mm; blade slightly pendulous, 9–18 × 1.2–2 cm. Flowering branchlets spicate; scaly bracts 4–6, gradually larger; spathes 5–7, glabrous or sparsely puberulent, auricles small; oral setae radiate; blade ovate-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, to 2.5 cm. Pseudospikelets 1 or 2 per spathe; spikelets 3.5–4 cm; florets 2 or 3, sparsely pubescent. Glume 1; lemma 2.7–3.2 cm, sparsely pubescent; palea 2.2–2.6 cm, subglabrous; lodicules narrowly lanceolate, ca. 5 mm. Anthers ca. 1.2 cm. Ovary glabrous; stigmas 3. New shoots Apr, fl. Apr–May.
* Widely cultivated. Fujian, Henan, Jiangsu, Shandong, Yunnan, Zhejiang.
This species is usually planted for shoot production and for the beautiful culms and elegant, drooping foliage of some cultivars. The culms are used for weaving articles and as handles of farm tools.