CHR 498919 B – Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex J.C.Wendl.
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 498919 B
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
19 May 2015
Database record updated:
18 August 2016
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Bambusa vulgaris?
Determiner:
W.R. Sykes
Identification date:
1993-07-15 (Verbatim: 15 Jul 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:
Cook Islands, Penrhyn, Omoka Village
Verbatim locality:
Omoka Village.
Verbatim collector:
W.R. Sykes 4234/CI
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
15 Jul 1993
Start date:
1993-07-15
Country:
Cook Islands
Land District:
Penrhyn
Habitat:
Cultivated in exposed site, with light Cocos canopy above.
Notes:
Clump-forming pachymorph bamboo open habit (presumably due to culling). Culms 4-5 m high (the whole plant growing poorly), green, becoming yellowish, erect to apex. Leaves dark green above, lighter green beneath. Culms 3.2-3.5 cm diameter in lower part, mealy white deposit when young with some short brown puberulence beneath nodes. Culm sheaths uniformly light green with yellowish-green or yellowish brown sheath laminas, sheath proper with dense dark brown hispid hairs, especially towards base. Branch complex with 1 large, central lateral. Rarely grown.
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
Unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Country:
Unknown
Specimen notes
Subsheet:
Sheets A to B, C (Wood)
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