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Issue: Vol. 302 No. 1: 28 March 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-03-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.302.1.11
Page range: 97–100
Abstract views: 20
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Chimonocalamus elegans, a new temperate woody bamboo species (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Doi Phu Kha National Park, Thailand

Natural History Museum, National Science Museum, Technopolis, Pathum Thani 12120, Thailand. Center of Excellence for Bamboos, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Center for Advanced Studies in Tropical Natural Resources, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Center for Advanced Studies in Tropical Natural Resources, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
Botany Building, School of Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Center of Excellence for Bamboos, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Department of Forest Biology, Faculty of Forestry, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand. Center for Advanced Studies in Tropical Natural Resources, Kasetsart University, Bangkok 10900, Thailand.
Arundinarieae endemic IUCN Monocots

Abstract

Chimonocalamus elegans, a tentatively endemic new species of temperate woody bamboos from Northern Thailand is described and illustrated. The new species differs from other members of Chimonocalamus by its glabrous nodes, culm leaf sheaths with narrow apex (3−4 mm) and 4−7 mm long ligules.