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Issue: Vol. 243 No. 2: 12 January 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-01-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.243.2.7
Page range: 170–174
Abstract views: 23
PDF downloaded: 1

Dendrocalamus atroviridis (Poaceae: Bambusoideae, Bambuseae), a new species from Southwest China

Research Institute of Resources Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Bailongsi, Kunming 650224, Yunnan, China
Research Institute of Resources Insects, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Bailongsi, Kunming 650224, Yunnan, China
Southwest Forestry University, Bailongsi, Kunming 650224, Yunnan, China
Yunnan Forestry Academy, Heilongtan, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Heilongtan, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China
woody bamboo taxonomy Yunnan Menghai Monocots Southwest China

Abstract

Dendrocalamus atroviridis, a new species from southern Yunnan, China, is described and illustrated. It resembles Dendrocalamus brandisii, but is characterized by dark-green culms, longer internodes, culm sheaths covered with densely brown bristles, erect blade of the culm sheath, 5–15 pseudospikelets at each node of the flowering branches, smaller pseudospikelets, as well as longer anthers and styles. It is only known from Menghai County, in Yunnan, China.