- Family:
- Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus:
- Bambusa Schreb.
Bambusa semitecta W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu
[GB]
- Morphology General Habit
- Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms erect; 200-300 cm long; 10-15 mm diam.; woody; without nodal roots. Culm-internodes terete; 20-30 cm long. Lateral branches dendroid. Branch complement several; in a clump. Culm-sheaths deciduous; hispid; with dark brown hairs; glabrous on margins; convex at apex; auriculate; with unequal auricles. Culm-sheath ligule 1.5 mm high; dentate and ciliolate. Culm-sheath blade triangular; narrower than sheath; deciduous; erect. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Collar with external ligule. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades linear, or lanceolate; 5.5-21 cm long; 8-18 mm wide. Leaf-blade surface pubescent; hairy abaxially.
- Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
- Flowering specimens unknown.
- Distribution
- Asia-temperate: China.
- Reference
- Bambuseae. Fl China 2005.
Native to:
China Southeast
Bambusa semitecta W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu appears in other Kew resources:
First published in J. S. China Agric. Univ. 14(1): 111 (1993)
Accepted by
- Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.
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GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Kew Backbone Distributions
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
© Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0