CHR 508733 – Bambusa oldhamii Munro
Data provider:
Allan Herbarium
Barcode:
CHR 508733
Specimen type:
Sheet
Database record added:
18 April 1996
Database record updated:
07 April 2015
Components
Primary component
Active identification
Determined name:
Bambusa oldhamii Munro
Determiner:
Sykes WR
Identification date:
1995-05-16 (Verbatim: 16-MAY-1995)
Preferred name:
Bambusa oldhamii Munro
Division:
Magnoliophyta
Class:
Liliopsida
Order:
Cyperales
Family:
Gramineae
Identification type:
Determination
Collection events
Primary collection event
Collection event type:
Field
Standard locality
Location:
Unknown
Verbatim locality:
unknown
Verbatim collector:
Verbatim date:
Other collection events
Collection event type:
Cultivated
Standard locality
Location:
Waitakere, Oratia, Isaachsen's Bamboo Nursery
Verbatim locality:
Waitakere, Oratia, Isaachsen's Bamboo Nursery
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 53/95
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
16-MAY-1995
Start date:
1995-05-16
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated as tall hedge.
Notes:
Large pachymorph bamboo forming dense clumps c.10m high; habit ± fastigiate because of shortness of laterals. Culm sheaths dark brown and hispid when young, green; sheath lamina brownish-green; auricles very small. Cultivated as this species. Branches originally few from the nodes, always one much larger, later on more subsidiary ones arising from near the base. Leaves dark green; oral bristles and auricles present; latter rudimentary. Inflorescence very few, arising from near base. Spikelets mostly 3-4cm long; glumes appearing plaited, shining purple or greenish-purple.
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