Classification
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Chimonobambusa quadrangularis (Franceschi) Makino, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 28: 153 (1914)
Vernacular Name(s):
Marble bamboo; square-stemmed bamboo
 Description

Diffuse bamboo with extensively running rhizomes. Culm 3–6 m, dark green; nodes swollen and prominent; internodes obtusely quadrangular in cross section; lower internodes less obviously so; lowest nodes with short indurated adventitious rootlets which become spiny. Culm-sheath to 12 × 8 cm, triangular, tardily deciduous, purple with dark purplish tessellations; auricles and oral bristles 0; sheath-blades very small. Branches spreading widely and ± drooping above, sometimes purplish. Leaf-sheath with long bristles at apex. Leaf-blade 9–24 × 0.7–2 cm, narrow lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, deep green on both surfaces, tessellate, ± drooping.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Makino, T. 1914: 36, 105-130, 153-. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 28: 20–36, 105–130, 153–160.
Sykes, W.R. 2000: Subfamily Bamusoideae. In: Edgar, E.; Connor, H. E. Flora of New Zealand Vol. V. Gramineae. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. 19–39.