''Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda'' ( zh, 筇竹, commonly called walking stick bamboo) is a

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species, endemic to southwest

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and northeast

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, that has been used for walking sticks since the

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. Its culms are 2.5–6 meters in height and 1–3 cm in diameter, with large and greatly swollen disk-like nodes. Although it has been utilized since the Han dynasty (some 1200 years ago) it somehow escaped scientific description until 1980.

Synonyms

* ''Chimonobambusa tumidinoda'' T.H.Wen * ''Qiongzhuea tumidinoda'' Hsueh & T.P.Yi * ''Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda'' (Ohrnb.) Hsueh f. & T.P.Yi

References

* ''Bamboos World Gen. Chimonobambusa'' 45 1990.
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