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 Bangladesh1. This is a dominant bamboo species in the successional fallows of northeast India2 and forms the overriding vegetation in tropical and subtropical hill slopes in which it grows. (Correspondence)