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|name=Arundinaria gigantea subsp. tecta
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae;Poaceae tribe Bambuseae;Arundinaria;Arundinaria tecta
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Bambuseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Arundinaria]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Arundinaria tecta]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
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|treatment_page=page 18
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Rhizomes </b>normally horizontal for only a short distance before turning up to form a culm, hollow-centered, air canals present. <b>Culms</b> usually shorter than 2.5 m tall, to 2 cm thick; internodes terete in the vegetative parts. <b>Culm</b> leaves persistent to tardily deciduous; sheaths 11-18 cm; fimbriae 1.5-8.5 mm; blades 2.5-4 cm. <b>Topknots</b> of 9-12 leaves; blades 20-30 cm long, 1.8-3.2 cm wide, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate. <b>Primary</b> branches usually 50+ cm, basally erect and distally arcuate, terete, with 3-4 compressed basal internodes, basal nodes developing secondary branches, lower elongated internodes terete in cross section. <b>Foliage</b> leaves: abaxial ligules fimbriate to lacerate, sometimes ciliate; blades 7-23 cm long, 1-2 cm wide, coriaceous, persistent, evergreen, bases rounded, abaxial surfaces densely pubescent or glabrous, strongly cross veined, adaxial surfaces pubescent. <b>Spikelets</b> 3-5 cm, with 6-12 florets, the first occasionally sterile. <b>Glumes</b> unequal, glabrous or pubescent; lowest glume obtuse to acuminate or absent; lemmas 1.2-2 cm, glabrous or nearly so. <b>Caryopses</b> oblong, beaked, a rudimentary hooked style branch present below the beak. <b>2n</b> = unknown.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;N.Y.;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Tenn.
|discussion=<p><i>Arundinaria tecta</i> grows in swampy woods, moist pine barrens, live oak woods, and along the sandy margins of streams, preferring moister sites than <i>A. gigantea</i>. It grows only on the coastal plain of the southeastern United States.</p>
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|authority=(Walter) Muhl.
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|synonyms=Arundinaria gigantea subsp. tecta
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|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Okla.;Ala.;Ark.;Fla.;Ga.;La.;Miss.;N.C.;N.Y.;Pa.;S.C.;Tex.;Va.;Tenn.
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Bambuseae
|genus=Arundinaria
|species=Arundinaria tecta
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