DOI: 10.36347/sajb.2020.v08i02.003

Pages: 30-38

The anatomical properties of 3-year-old tropical bamboos Gigantochloa levis and G. scotechinii. These bamboos were selected and harvested from the plantation plots located at the Forest Research Institute Malaysia in Kepong, Selangor. The studies focussed on the vascular bundles and fibres the located at the internodes and nodes seven, eight and nine at the outer, middle and inner cross-section of the bamboo culms. Data were taken on the sizes of the vascular bundle's length, vascular bundles width, fibre length, diameter, lumens diameter, walls thickness and fibre Runkle’s ratio between each of the bamboo species with the sample's location at the internodes, nodes, and locations in the cross-section of the bamboo culms. The two bamboo species exhibited similar in characteristics but having different sizes in anatomy and microstructure features. The results in the fibre's morphology studies showed that the fibres for each species possess different anatomy characteristics and properties in having different lengths, diameters, cell walls thickness and lumen sizes. The size of the vascular bundle is smaller at the outer position and become more prominent at the central locations.