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Dinochloa sipitangensis

Dinochloa sipitangensis
Photo: 0liveOi1, CC BY-SA 4.0

Dinochloa sipitangensis is a climbing, clumping bamboo from the grass family, native to hill and lowland dipterocarp forests of northern Borneo in Sabah. It is a wild forest species rarely grown in gardens, so care advice is limited.

Family
Poaceae (Grass family)
Grows as
Climber, Grass
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil consistently moist during the growing season, avoiding waterlogging.
Soil
Rich, humus-heavy, well-draining forest-type soil.
Temperature
22–32 °C; protect below 15 °C
How easy
Hard
Native range
N. Borneo
Climate
wet tropical

About

Dinochloa sipitangensis a species of tropical clumping high-climbing bamboos in the grass family.

They are found in the hill forests and lowland dipterocarp forest of Borneo, in Sabah. The species was identified by Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist, Soejatmi Dransfield, in 1981 and named after the locality, Sipitang, in which it was found.

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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Dinochloa sipitangensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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