Yushania alpina
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 Bamboo on Mount Kenya
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| Yushania alpina (K. Schum.) W.C.Lin (1974) |
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 Native range of Yushania alpina
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Arundinaria alpina K. Schum.[1] |
Yushania alpina or African alpine bamboo, a perennial[3] bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Yushania[1][4] or the genus Sinarundinaria[2][5] but not of the genus Chimonocalamus[6] that can be found growing in dense but not large stands[7] on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the Great Rift Valley[1] between the altitudes of 2,500 meters (8,200 feet)[7] and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet).[8]
[edit] Description
- Stems and leaves
- 200 - 1,950 centimeters (6 - 64 feet) tall and 5 - 125 centimeters (2 - 50 inches) in diameter;[3] these grass stems get used as fencing,[7] plumbing and other building materials.[9] 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).[10]
[edit] Distribution
- Native
- Afrotropic:
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN) (2004-03-17). Taxon: Yushania alpina (HTML). Taxonomy for Plants. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program, National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ a b Sinarundinaria alpina (K.Schum.) C.S.Chao & Renvoize record n° 54488 (HTML). African Plants Database. South African National Biodiversity Institute, the Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques de la Ville de Genève and Tela Botanica. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ a b c d e f Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. RBG Kew: GrassBase - Yushania alpina (HTML). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora. Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). Yushania alpina (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). Sinarundinaria alpina (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved on 2008-05-08.
- ^ International Organization for Plant Information (IOPI). Plant Name Search Results (HTML). International Plant Names Index. Retrieved on 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 3540006036.
- ^ H. Peter Linder and Berit Gehrke (2 March 2006). Common plants of the Rwenzori, particularly the upper zones (PDF). Institute for Systematic Botany, University of Zurich. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
- ^ International Network for Bamboo and Rattan (INBAR) (May,2005). "Country Report on Bamboo Resources Ethiopia". Global Forest Resources Assessment. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
- ^ Stapleton, Chris (1998). "Form and Function in the Bamboo Rhizome". Journal of the American Bamboo Society 12 (1).
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