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Monocotyledons / Monocotiledóneas
Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro
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Specimen Records:8
Specimens with Sequences:8
Specimens with Barcodes:6
Species:7
Species With Barcodes:7
Public Records:8
Public Species:7
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Gigantochloa is a tropical Asian and Papuasian genus of giant clumping bamboo in the grass family.[2][3] It is found in southern China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and New Guinea.[4]
- G. achmadii
- G. albociliata
- G. albopilosa
- G. albovestita
- G. andamanica
- G. apus
- G. aspera
- G. atter
- G. atroviolacea
- G. aya
- G. baliana
- G. balui
- G. calcicola
- G. cochinchinensis
- G. compressa
- G. densa
- G. dinhensis
- G. felix
- G. hasskarliana
- G. hayatae
- G. heteroclada
- G. hirtinoda
- G. holttumiana
- G. hosseusii
- G. kachinensis
- G. kathaensis
- G. kuring
- G. kurzii
- G. latifolia
- G. levis
- G. ligulata
- G. longiprophylla
- G. luteostriata
- G. macrostachya
- G. magentea
- G. manggong
- G. membranoidea
- G. mogaungensis
- G. multiculmis
- G. nigrociliata
- G. papyracea
- G. parviflora
- G. parvifolia
- G. poilanei
- G. pruriens
- G. pseudoarundinacea
- G. pubinervis
- G. pubipetiolata
- G. ridleyi
- G. robusta
- G. rostrata
- G. scortechinii
- G. scribneriana
- G. serik
- G. tekserah
- G. tenuispiculata
- G. thoi
- G. tomentosa
- G. toungooensis
- G. velutina
- G. verticillata
- G. vietnamica
- G. vinhphuica
- G. wallichiana
- G. wanet
- G. wrayi
- G. wunthoensis
- G. yunzalinensis
- formerly included[5]
see Bambusa Dendrocalamus Neololeba Pseudoxytenanthera
- G. auriculata - Bambusa vulgaris
- G. heterostachya - Bambusa heterostachya
- G. latispiculata - Bambusa heterostachya
- G. maxima - Bambusa bambos
- G. merrilliana - Dendrocalamus merrillianus
- G. novoguineensis - Neololeba atra
- G. sinuata - Dendrocalamus sinuatus
- G. stocksii - Pseudoxytenanthera stocksii
- G. tabindaing - Bambusa villosula
References[edit]
- ^ lectotype designated by Holttum, Taxon 5: 28-30 (1956)
- ^ Kurz, Wilhelm Sulpiz ex Munro, William. 1868. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26(1): 123-126 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
- ^ Tropicos, Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro
- ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 46 巨竹属 ju zhu shu Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London. 26: 123. 1868.
- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ The Plant List search for Gigantochloa
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Hong Kong, S Yunnan [India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam].
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Culms 8–15 m, 7–10 cm in diam.; internodes yellow striate, 28–42 cm, white or brown hispid; wall ca. 1.6 cm thick. Branches several, central dominant. Culm sheaths deciduous, green, yellow striate initially, later brown, leathery, initially densely white hispid, margins ciliate; auricles minute, inconspicuous; oral setae absent; ligule ca. 3 mm, irregularly serrate or fimbriate; blade reflexed. Leaf sheath initially pubescent; ligule 5–10 mm, entire; blade 24–47 × 3.5–7 cm. Inflorescence unknown.
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Bambusa verticillata Willdenow, Sp. Pl. 2: 245. 1799; Arundo maxima Loureiro (1790), not Forsskål (1775); B. maxima (Loureiro) Poiret; B. pseudoarundinacea Steudel; Gigantochloa maxima (Loureiro) Kurz; G. pseudoarundinacea (Steudel) Widjaja.
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Type material for Bambusa verticillata Willd.
Catalog Number: US 79119
Collection: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany
Verification Degree: Original publication and alleged type specimen examined
Preparation: Pressed specimen
Collector(s): C. P. Thunberg
Locality: India, Asia-Tropical
- Type material: Willdenow, C. L. 1799. Sp. Pl. 2: 245.
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Tropical rain forests; 500–800 m.
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The application of names to this bamboo has been contentious and it is widely known as Gigantochloa pseudoarundinacea. Further study of types is required.
This species is widely planted as an ornamental.
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