Biology:Thamnocalamus

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Thamnocalamus
Thamnocalamus tessellatus00.jpg
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Arundinarieae
Subtribe: Arundinariinae
Genus: Thamnocalamus
Munro
Type species
Thamnocalamus spathiflorus [1][2]
(Trin.) Munro.
Synonyms[2]
  • Arundinaria sect. Thamnocalamus (Munro) Hack.

Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family.[3] These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.[4][5]

Thamnocalamus is closely related to Fargesia. The two genera are sometimes regarded as a single genus by some authors.[6]

Species[7][8]
  1. Thamnocalamus chigar (Stapleton) Stapleton - Nepal
  2. Thamnocalamus spathiflorus (Trin.) Munro - Tibet, Bhutan, India , Nepal
  3. Thamnocalamus tessellatus (Nees) Soderstr. & R.P.Ellis - Madagascar , KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Lesotho, Cape Province
  4. Thamnocalamus unispiculatus T.P.Yi & J.Y.Shi - Tibet
formerly included[7]

see Chimonobambusa Drepanostachyum Fargesia Himalayacalamus Neomicrocalamus Pleioblastus Pseudosasa


References

  1. lectotype designated by Bentham in Benth. & Hook., Gen. Pl. 3(2): 1208 (1883)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Tropicos, Thamnocalamus Munro
  3. Munro, William. 1868. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26(1): 33-35 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 73 筱竹属 xiao zhu shu Thamnocalamus Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London. 26: 33. 1868
  5. Chao, C. & S. A. Renvoize. 1989. A revision of the species described under Arundinaria (Gramineae) in southeast Asia and Africa. Kew Bulletin 44(2): 349–367
  6. Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Bamboos of the World 1–585
  7. 7.0 7.1 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  8. The Plant List search for Thamnocalamus

Wikidata ☰ Q2904135 entry