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Volume 50, Issue 1-4, September 2008

Articles

Bambusa nairiana (Poaceae:Bambusoideae) - A New Bamboo Species from Meghalaya

https://doi.org/10.20324/nelumbo/v50/2008/58196

Published 2008-12-07

  • Pushpa Kumari
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  • Paramjit Singh

Pushpa Kumari
Botanical Survey of India, Central National Herbarium, Howrah 711 103

Paramjit Singh
Botanical Survey of India, 3rd MSO Building, Block-F, 6th Floor, CGO Complex, Salt Lake City, Kolkata 700 064

Abstract

Bambusa nairiana - a new bamboo species collected from Meghalaya, in the North Eastern part of India, is described and illustrated, it is distinguished from other Bambusa species by its short, eciliate auricles, glabrous ligule and pseudospikelets with 3 lodicules, two of them similar, obliquely cut from one side, rounded on another, the third ovate, apiculate, 5-nerved and ciliate along margins. This new species somewhat resembles Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. ex Wendl. in the shape of its culm-sheath but differs in having very small auricle. The paper compares it with B. vulgaris, provide diagnostic characters, complete description and illustrations.
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