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''Yushania alpina'' or African alpine bamboo is a perennial bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus ''Yushania''〔 or the genus ''Sinarundinaria''.〔 Not of the genus ''Chimonocalamus'', it can be found growing in dense but not large stands on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift〔 between the altitudes of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet)〔 and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet). ==Description== ;Stems and leaves: 200 - 1,950 centimeters (6 – 64 feet) tall and 5 - 12.5 centimeters (2 - 5 inches) in diameter;〔 these grass stems get used as fencing,〔 plumbing and other building materials. Culm sheaths (tubular coverings) are hairless or with red bristles.〔 :Leaf sheath is covered with bristles. Leaf blades are "deciduous at the ligule"; blades 5 - 20 centimeters (2 - 8 inches) long.〔 ;Flowers: Branched cluster of flowers in solitary spikes, which can be dense or loose and are 5-15 centimeters (2-6 inches) long.〔 ;Roots: Short rhizomes described as pachymorph〔 (a term which is recommended for describing rhizomes which are sympodial or superposed in such a way as to imitate a simple axis, but the word pachymorph would not be used for describing branches or in the case of bamboos, culms). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yushania alpina」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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