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surface very smooth light green at lower altitude, lightly mottled on the dark green cilindrical (not oval like the other Atracthanthe 
Base of culm (old ones without sheath? not new. Every node with a bud. Sometimes, rather large (not develop in lower part, _+ from 4 to 5 cm starts producing branches. & Bud complement of 3, some with clear central dominant In other, upper, thin branches, not only 

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3 or 4 +/- equal-

Culm sheath falling from young culm with developping branches rather easy 
Culm leaf on new culm very smooth green, tied, glabrous no hairs at base? no callous on back. [[underlined]] No leaf blade developed! [[/underlined]] only a rudiment erect sometimes even hard to see. Bud developing [[?]] Nodal region: lower ridge [[underlined]] not prominent or marked conspicuously [[underlined]]