Abstract
Year of Publication 2010
Schizostachyum dullooa (Gamble) Majumder (dolu bamboo) is a
thin-walled sympodial moderate size to large tufted bamboo. The species is
distributed in the moist semi-evergreen forests of northeast India (Assam,
Sikkim, Meghalaya, Tripura and Mizoram) to Sylhet, Chittagong and Chittagong
hill tracts of Bangladesh. This is a dominant bamboo species in the
successional fallows of northeast India and forms the overriding vegetation in
tropical and subtropical hill slopes in which it grows. This is one of the
important bamboo species after Melocanna baccifera in the hill tracts of
Cachar District, Assam and has been harvested by human populations for
subsistence and commercial needs since time immemorial. Internodes of the green
culm are used for preparation of a traditional food during the religious
harvest festival in addition to its wide range of uses in house construction,
fencing and craft making3. Young shoots of the species is also a food item of
Phayre’s leaf monkey during the rainy season. The importance of the species as
the provider of ecosystem services4 is clear from the numerous ways through
which it generates services.
Authors: Arun Jyoti Nath and Ashesh Kumar Das
Journal Name and Issue: Current Science 99 (2): 154-155 (IF 0.83)
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