Biology:Yushania alpina
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Yushania alpina | |
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| Bamboo on Mount Kenya | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Genus: | Yushania |
| Species: | Y. alpina
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| Binomial name | |
| Yushania alpina (K. Schum.) W.C.Lin (1974)
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| Native range of Yushania alpina | |
| Synonyms | |
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Arundinaria alpina K. Schum.[1] | |
Oldeania alpina, the African alpine bamboo,[1] is a perennial[3] bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Yushania.[1] It can be found growing in dense but not large stands[4] on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift[1] between 2,500 meters (8,200 feet)[4] and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) elevation.[5]
Description
- Stems and leaves
- 200 – 1,950 centimeters (6 – 64 feet) tall and 5 – 12.5 centimeters (2 – 5 inches) in diameter;[3] these grass stems get used as fencing,[4] plumbing and other building materials.[6] Culm sheaths (tubular coverings) are hairless or with red bristles.[3]
- Leaf sheath is covered with bristles. Leaf blades are "deciduous at the ligule"; blades 5 – 20 centimeters (2 – 8 inches) long.[3]
- Flowers
- Branched cluster of flowers in solitary spikes, which can be dense or loose and are 5–15 centimeters (2–6 inches) long.[3]
- Roots
- Short rhizomes described as pachymorph[3] (a term which is recommended for describing rhizomes which are sympodial or superposed in such a way as to imitate a simple axis, but the word pachymorph would not be used for describing branches or in the case of bamboos, culms).[7]
Distribution
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2004-03-17). "Taxon: Yushania alpina". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=444002.
- ↑ "Sinarundinaria alpina (K.Schum.) C.S.Chao & Renvoize record n° 54488". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. http://www.ville-ge.ch/cjb/bd/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=54488.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "RBG Kew: GrassBase – Yushania alpina". GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. http://www.kew.org/data/grasses-db/www/imp10798.htm.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Gerold, Gerhard; Michael Fremerey; Edi Guhardja (2004). "Rain Forest Margins and their Dynamics in South-East Ethiopia". Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia. Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 3-540-00603-6. https://books.google.com/books?id=12SjIUajFmIC&pg=PA225.
- ↑ H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke (2 March 2006). "Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones". Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. http://www.systbot.unizh.ch/datenbanken/rwenzori/Rwenzori_desktop.pdf.
- ↑ {{cite journal | last =International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) | title =Country Report on Bamboo Resources Ethiopia | journal =Global Forest Resources Assessment | publisher =Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations | date =May 2005 | url =ftp://ftp.fao.org/docrep/fao/010/ah776e/ah776e00.pdf | access-date =2008-05-08
- ↑ Stapleton, Chris (1998). "Form and Function in the Bamboo Rhizome". Journal of the American Bamboo Society 12 (1). http://bamboo-identification.co.uk/RHIZOME4.pdf. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
Wikidata ☰ Q2750563 entry
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