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Description
Genus Sinobambusa
Arborescent
or shrubby bamboos
. Rhizomes leptomorph, with running
underground stems. Culms
diffuse
, sometimes also clustering
, erect
to nodding
; internodes substantially grooved
above branches, initially usually pubescent
; nodes prominent
, sheath
rings
corky. Branches 3, rarely 5-7 at higher nodes, subequal
, buds initially closed
at front. Culm sheaths deciduous, setose
; ligule serrate or entire; blade
lanceolate. Leaves 3-9 per ultimate
branch
; blade lanceolate. Inflorescence fully bracteate
, partially iterauctant, lateral
, racemose, prophyllate
. Spikelets
1-3, subtended by a prophyll and 2 to more gradually enlarged bracts or glumes
, apical 1 or 2 bracts usually with axillary buds, forming secondary pseudospikelets, lateral spikelets sessile, terminal
spikelet variably pedicellate
. Spikelets with several to many (up to 50) florets
. Rachilla disarticulating
between florets. Lemma leathery, apex acute; palea about as long as lemma or slightly shorter, 2-keeled, rounded
at apex, ciliolate
; lodicules 3, membranous, many veined. Stamens 3, sometimes 2 or 4; filaments
free
. Ovary ellipsoid
; style 1, sometimes absent, usually long; stigmas 2 or 3, plumose
. Fruit a caryopsis.
About ten species: S and SW China, N Vietnam; introduced
to Japan during the Tang
Dynasty; ten species (nine endemic) in China.
Sinobambusa is very difficult to distinguish from Indosasa without knowledge of stamen number.[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Plantae
()
- Haeckel, 1866
- Plants
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
()
- Cavalier-Smith, 1981
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
()
- Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Vascular Plants
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
()
- (Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
()
- Auct.
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
()
- Brongniart, 1843
- Dicotyledons
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder:
Juncanae
()
- Takhtajan, 1967
- Order:
Poales
()
- Small, 1903
- Family:
Gramineae
()
- A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily:
Bambusoideae
()
- Tribe:
Bambuseae
()
- Subtribe:
Arundinariinae
()
- Genus:
Sinobambusa
()
- Makino ex Nakai, 1925
- Specific epithet:
striata
- T.H.Wen
- Botanical name: - Sinobambusa striata T.H.Wen
- Specific epithet:
striata
- T.H.Wen
- Genus:
Sinobambusa
(
- Subtribe:
Arundinariinae
(
- Tribe:
Bambuseae
(
- Subfamily:
Bambusoideae
(
- Family:
Gramineae
(
- Order:
Poales
(
- Superorder:
Juncanae
(
- Subclass:
Commelinidae
(
- Class:
Magnoliopsida
(
- Infraphylum:
Angiospermae
(
- Subphylum:
Euphyllophytina
(
- Phylum:
Tracheophyta
(
- Subkingdom:
Viridaeplantae
(
- Kingdom:
Plantae
(
Similar Species
Members of the genus Sinobambusa
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 1 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:
S. tootsik (Chinese Temple Bamboo)
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Further Reading
Notes
Contributors
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 22, 2012.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 9313519
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15775262
- Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:903093-1
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 3647249
Footnotes
- Zheng-de Zhu, Yang Guangyao & Chris Stapleton "Sinobambusa". in Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 9, 147. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
