Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda

Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda (Chinese: 筇竹, commonly called walking stick bamboo) is a bamboo species, endemic to southwest Sichuan and northeast Yunnan, China, that has been used for walking sticks since the Han dynasty. Its culms are 2.5–6 meters in height and 1–3 cm in diameter, with large and greatly swollen disk-like nodes. Although it has been utilized since the Han dynasty (some 1200 years ago) it somehow escaped scientific description until 1980.^[1]

Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Chimonobambusa
Species:	C. tumidissinoda
Binomial name
Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda Ohrnb.

The swollen disk-like nodes of Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda culms

Synonyms

• Chimonobambusa tumidinoda T.H.Wen
• Qiongzhuea tumidinoda Hsueh & T.P.Yi
• Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda (Ohrnb.) Hsueh f. & T.P.Yi