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Yushania alpina
Oldeania alpina, the African alpine bamboo,[1] is a perennial[3] bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Yushania.[1] It can be found growing in dense but not large stands[4] on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift[1] between 2,500 meters (8,200 feet)[4] and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) elevation.[5]
Yushania alpina | |
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Bamboo on Mount Kenya | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Monocots |
Clade: | Commelinids |
Order: | Poales |
Family: | Poaceae |
Genus: | Yushania |
Species: | Y. alpina |
Binomial name | |
Yushania alpina (K. Schum.) W.C.Lin (1974) | |
Native range of Yushania alpina | |
Synonyms | |
Arundinaria alpina K. Schum.[1] |
Description edit
- Stems and leaves
- 200 – 1,950 centimeters (6 – 64 feet) tall and 5 – 12.5 centimeters (2 – 5 inches) in diameter;[3] these grass stems get used as fencing,[4] plumbing and other building materials.[6] Culm sheaths (tubular coverings) are hairless or with red bristles.[3]
- Leaf sheath is covered with bristles. Leaf blades are "deciduous at the ligule"; blades 5 – 20 centimeters (2 – 8 inches) long.[3]
- Flowers
- Branched cluster of flowers in solitary spikes, which can be dense or loose and are 5–15 centimeters (2–6 inches) long.[3]
- Roots
- Short rhizomes described as pachymorph[3] (a term which is recommended for describing rhizomes which are sympodial or superposed in such a way as to imitate a simple axis, but the word pachymorph would not be used for describing branches or in the case of bamboos, culms).[7]
Distribution edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d e Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2004-03-17). "Taxon: Yushania alpina". Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. from the original on 2016-09-21. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
- ^ "Sinarundinaria alpina (K.Schum.) C.S.Chao & Renvoize record n° 54488". African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Archived from the original on 2013-01-01. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ a b c d e f Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. "RBG Kew: GrassBase – Yushania alpina". GrassBase – The Online World Grass Flora. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. from the original on 2009-02-01. Retrieved 2008-05-08.
- ^ a b c Gerold, Gerhard; Michael Fremerey; Edi Guhardja (2004). "Rain Forest Margins and their Dynamics in South-East Ethiopia". Land Use, Nature Conservation and the Stability of Rainforest Margins in Southeast Asia. Springer Science+Business Media. ISBN 3-540-00603-6.
- ^ H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke (2 March 2006). (PDF). Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-05-30. Retrieved 2008-05-06.
- ^ International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) (May 2005). "Country Report on Bamboo Resources Ethiopia" (PDF). Global Forest Resources Assessment. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Retrieved 2008-05-08.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Stapleton, Chris (1998). "Form and Function in the Bamboo Rhizome" (PDF). Journal of the American Bamboo Society. 12 (1). (PDF) from the original on 2010-12-31. Retrieved 2008-05-08.