Oldeania alpina

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| image = Bamboo zone.jpg

| image_caption = Bamboo on Mount Kenya

| genus = Oldeania

| species = alpina

| authority = (K. Schum.) Stapleton

| range_map = Range of Yushania alpina.svg

| range_map_caption = Native range of Oldeania alpina

| synonyms = Arundinaria alpina K. Schum.{{cite web

|url = https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=444002

|title = Taxon: Yushania alpina

|access-date = 2016-08-26

|author = Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN)

|author-link = Germplasm Resources Information Network

|date = 2004-03-17

|work = Taxonomy for Plants

|publisher = USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland

|url-status = live

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160921071014/https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=444002

|archive-date = 2016-09-21

}}

Sinarundinaria alpina (K. Schum.) C.S.Chao & Renvoize

Arundinaria fischeri K.Schum.

Arundinaria tolange K.Schum.

Oxytenanthera ruwensorensis Chiov.{{cite web

|url = https://africanplantdatabase.ch/en/nomen/specie/233758/oldeania-alpina-k-schum-stapleton

|title = Oldeania alpina (K. Schum.) Stapleton

|access-date = 2024-05-03

|work = African Plants Database

|publisher = South African National Biodiversity Institute and the Conservatory and Botanical Garden of the City of Geneva

}}

Yushania alpinia (K. Schum.) W.C.Lin

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Oldeania alpina, the African alpine bamboo, is a perennial{{cite web | url = http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp10798.htm | title = RBG Kew: GrassBase – Yushania alpina | access-date = 2008-05-08 | author = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | author-link = Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | work = GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora | publisher = Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090201105345/http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp10798.htm | archive-date = 2009-02-01 }} bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Oldeania. It can be found growing in dense but not large stands{{cite book | last = Gerold | first = Gerhard |author2=Michael Fremerey |author3=Edi Guhardja | title = Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=12SjIUajFmIC | year = 2004 | publisher = Springer Science+Business Media | isbn = 3-540-00603-6 | chapter = Rain Forest Margins and their Dynamics in South-East Ethiopia | chapter-url = https://books.google.com/books?id=12SjIUajFmIC&pg=PA225}} on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift between 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) elevation.{{cite web | url = http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf | title = Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones | access-date = 2008-05-06 | author = H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke | author-link = University of Zurich | date = 2 March 2006 | publisher = Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080530005602/http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf |archive-date = 2008-05-30}}

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.

{{cite journal

| last =International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR)

| title =Country Report on Bamboo Resources Ethiopia

| journal =Global Forest Resources Assessment

| publisher =Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

| date =May 2005

| url =ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ah776e/ah776e00.pdf

| access-date =2008-05-08

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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).{{cite journal

|last = Stapleton

|first = Chris

|title = Form and Function in the Bamboo Rhizome

|journal = Journal of the American Bamboo Society

|volume = 12

|issue = 1

|year = 1998

|url = http://bamboo-identification.co.uk/RHIZOME4.pdf

|access-date = 2008-05-08

|url-status = live

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20101231135120/http://bamboo-identification.co.uk/RHIZOME4.pdf

|archive-date = 2010-12-31