Yushania alpina or African alpine bamboo is a perennial bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Yushania or the genus Sinarundinaria. Not of the genus Chimonocalamus, it can be found growing in dense but not large stands on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift between the altitudes of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet).