FIGURE 4. Chusquea ciliatifolia. A in Increasing our knowledge of Brazilian bamboos: two new species of Chusquea subg. Rettbergia (Bambusoideae, Poaceae)

FIGURE 4. Chusquea ciliatifolia. A. Seedlings in the natural habitat (white circle) and dry culms (white arrow). B. Ciliate margins of the foliage leaf blades (black arrow) and detail of the synflorescence with main axis, branches and peduncles pilose. C. Mottled internode. Chusquea mirabilis. D. Habit. E. Detail of the branching, showing the sericeous girdles. F. Infravaginal branching with central branch developed, as robust as the main culm. (A: Mota & Carvalho-Sobrinho 389; B, C: Lopes et al. 1255; D–F: Mota & Carvalho-Sobrinho 399). (Photos A.C. Mota)