Temochloa (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a newly-recorded bamboo genus for China and Vietnam, with new taxa and a re-interpretation of flowering structures

By

Cai, Zhuo-Yu
Zhang, You Yuan
Tong, Yi-Hua
Chinh, Vu Tien
Xia, Nianhe

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

PhytoKeys

Volume

246

Pages

229--236

Subjects

Bambusoideae , Morphology , pseudospikelet , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers [2010]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.246.129035

 

Abstract

Neomicrocalamus and Temochloa are closely-related genera for which ‘inflorescence’ structures were incompletely understood and difficult to reconcile. After re-examining the inflorescence morphology, the so-called ‘spikelets’ of both genera as described should instead be recognised as pseudospikelets with mostly inactive axillary buds. The new bamboo taxa, comprising two varieties of a new species, are placed in Temochloa, representing a new genus record for China and Vietnam.