PhytoKeys (Sep 2024)

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

  • Zhuo-Yu Cai,
  • You-Yuan Zhang,
  • Yi-Hua Tong,
  • Tien Chinh Vu,
  • Nian-He Xia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.246.129035
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 246
pp. 229 – 236

Abstract

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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.