Kinabaluchloa nebulosa K.M. Wong
Gramineae
Distribution Sabah (Mt. Kinabalu, Crocker Range), Sarawak (Kelabit Highlands), and Brunei (Pagon Range). For map click: Map01.TIF.
Uses The long, thin-walled internodes are used for making musical instruments ('sompoton' in Sabah, 'engkrui' in Sarawak).
Observations Open tufted, scrambling bamboo. Culm 10-20 m tall or more, lower part erect, upper part leaning or scrambling over nearby vegetation or drooping to the ground, diameter 1.5-2 cm, wall thin; internodes 40-80(-120) cm long, green with dark brown hairs when young, becoming glabrous. Culm sheath covered with black hairs; blade narrowly lanceolate. Leafy branches up to 60 cm long, bearing 9-17 leaf blades. Inflorescence borne on a leafy branch; pseudospikelets rigid, cylindrical. Found in lower montane forest.