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Descriptions
W.D. Clayton, M. Vorontsova, K.T. Harman & H. Williamson
© Copyright The Board of Trustees, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Melocalamus kbangensis
HABIT Perennial; caespitose. Rhizomes short; pachymorph. Culms scandent; 1500 cm long; 20–25 mm diam.; woody. Culm-internodes terete; solid; 55–58 cm long; grey. Lateral branches dendroid. Branch complement many. Culm-sheaths 14–16 cm long; 2–3 times as long as wide; pubescent; with appressed hairs; with white hairs; auriculate; with 2–2.5 mm high auricles. Culm-sheath blade ovate; reflexed; 12–16 cm long; 20–28 mm wide; pubescent (adaxially at base). Leaves 4–5 per branch. Leaf-sheaths pubescent; hairs white; outer margin hairy. Leaf-sheath oral hairs ciliate. Leaf-sheath auricles falcate. Ligule an eciliate membrane; 1 mm long. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath; petiole 0.4–0.6 cm long; petiole pubescent. Leaf-blades linear; 28–30 cm long; 45 mm wide. Leaf-blade venation with 18–20 secondary veins. Leaf-blade margins scabrous.
INFLORESCENCE Synflorescence bractiferous; clustered at the nodes; in globose clusters; dense; pubescent on internodes; with glumaceous subtending bracts; with axillary buds at base of spikelet; prophyllate below lateral spikelets; leafless between clusters.
Fertile spikelets sessile.
FERTILE SPIKELETS Spikelets comprising 2 fertile florets; with a barren rhachilla extension. Spikelets obovate; laterally compressed; obtuse; 2 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating above glumes but not between florets. Rhachilla internodes suppressed between florets.
GLUMES Glumes several; 2–3 empty glumes; persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet. Upper glume oblate; 2–2.5 mm long; 0.8 length of adjacent fertile lemma; chartaceous; without keels; 5 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins prominent. Upper glume surface pubescent. Upper glume margins ciliate. Upper glume apex obtuse.
FLORETS Fertile lemma oblate; 2.5–3 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 5 -veined. Lemma lateral veins obscure. Lemma margins ciliolate. Lemma apex obtuse. Palea tightly convolute around flower; 2–3.5 mm long. Palea surface pubescent; hairy on flanks.
FLOWER Lodicules 3; 2–3 mm long; ciliate. Anthers 6; 2 mm long. Stigmas 3.
FRUIT Caryopsis with fleshy pericarp; orbicular; isodiametric.
DISTRIBUTION Asia-tropical: Indo-China.
NOTES Bambuseae. Nguyen & Tran 2011.
Please cite this publication as detailed in How to Cite Version: 3rd February 2016.
