Guadua angustifolia Kunth

• Habit
• Culms: caespitose
• Culm Diameter: 10 - 13 cm
• Culm Internode Length: 20 cm
• Wall thickness: Thin-walled
• Height: 20 - 30 meter

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• Identification Features: Culm Color-Dark Green, Culm-internodes terete; Culm-sheaths triangular, pubescent, hairy throughout with dark brown hairs, without auricles; Leaves lanceolate or oblong, 10-20 cm long; Inflorescence is Panicle, bractiferous, scanty, 5-10 cm long, Fertile spikelets sessile; Fruit Caryopsis with adherent pericarp.
• Flowering Cycle:
• Distribution: Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela
• Spacing for Cultivation:5 x 5 meter
• Uses: Building and Construction, Furniture, Handicrafts, Paper and Pulping, Reclamation of river banks, Musical instruments