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Merostachys             2874
([[strikethrough]]same[[/strikethrough]] locat. as (Guadua)
Beautiful Merostachys forming
very dense large clumps.
in low dense forest mixed
with bamboo, also mixed 
with Mer. a very rare Guadua
About 8 m tall & less than 
1 cm in diam. ±_ Very
thin, fragile culms, very
smooth surface, with
small, [simple nodal [[strikethrough]][[?]][[/strikethrough]]
axion; (no upper ridge and
no girdle or thick ring
or hairs.

Culm leaf [[caducoces?]] 
with blade [[?]] & [[caducoces?]]
Very few new culm seen
Many branches per nodes
and very thin, delicate
branches, leaf complement
medium-small, Blades
narrow, glabrous & little
[[?]] _
Rhizome typical, ± dense
pachymorph -

Transcription Notes:
caducoces = caducous?