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Type: Article
Published: 2016-04-18
Page range: 181–186
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Schizostachyum langbianense, a new species of bamboo (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Lang Bian Mountain, Vietnam

Da Lat University, 1 Phu Dong Thien Vuong, Dalat, Lamdong Province, Vietnam
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Sustainable Utilization/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China
Singapore Botanic Gardens, 1 Cluny Road, Singapore 259569
Tay Nguyen Institute of Scientific Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Tay Nguyen Institute of Scientific Research, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology
Key Laboratory of Plant Resources and Sustainable Utilization/Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Digital Botanical Garden, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, 510650, China The Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Science, 19A Yuquanlu, Beijing, 100049, China Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Hanoi, Vietnam
woody bamboos Bambuseae Melocanninae endemism high mountain Truong Son Range

Abstract

Schizostachyum langbianense is a new woody bamboo from a high mountain, Lang Bian, in southern Vietnam, which is being described and illustrated. It is similar to S. ninhthuanense in having short ultimate inflorescence branchlets on which clusters of a few pseudospikelets are borne. However, it differs in its culm leaves with a horizontal or only slightly concave apical portion, culm leaf blades that are narrowly lanceolate, and a palea that is not apically bifid and dorsally sulcate with 2 keels. Both species occur in the same mountain region, but separated by distinct elevations.