Note on the flowering of Dendrocalamus sikkimensis from West Bengal, India

Abstract

Dendrocalamus sikkimensis, an attractive bamboo known from North-east India, Nepal, China and Bhutan. In the past it has flowered in 1885 from Sikkim; 1897 from Bhutan; 1916, 1917, 1921, 1982 and 1991 from West Bengal; 1887, 1977, 1979, 2003 from Mizoram and 2013 from Meghalaya respectively. Recently it has gregariously flowered in Kalimpong, West Bengal in April 2022 after a lapse of 60-65 years.