CHR 498735 C – Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498735 C
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
20 October 2014
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Bambusa vulgaris 'Aureo-Variegata'
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-11-10 (Verbatim: 10 Nov 1993)
Preferred name:
Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl.
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Tupapa, inland valley just west of Tupapa Valley
Verbatim locality:
Tupapa, inland valley just west of Tupapa Valley.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4050/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
22 Jun 1993
Start date:
1993-06-22
Land District:
Rarotonga
Country:
Cook Islands
Habitat:
Side of small valley, surrounded by high forest.
Notes:
Giant clump-forming bamboo; rhizomes pachymorph (not running). Culms c. 25 m high, mostly 10-13 cm diameter, predominently yellow, but also green striped. Culm sheaths ± green when young, with copious dark brown hispid pubescence. Nodes with tuft of branches of different sizes. Leaves ± deep shining green above, glaucescent beneath with green band along one margin generally. This stand consisted of several clumps. These must have been originally planted long ago.
Observed species:
Homalium acuminatum
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B, C (Wood)
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