[Botany • 2017] Taxonomic Re-evaluation of Some Gelidocalamus (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) Taxa from Southeast China

Gelidocalamus subsolidus W.T.Lin & Z.J.Feng

DOI:  10.11646/phytotaxa.299.1.9

Abstract

In the present study, we employed a classical taxonomic analysis of micromorphological characters of the leaf epidermis to reassess the taxonomy of four Gelidocalamus taxa, a genus of woody bamboos endemic to China. We propose that Gelidocalamus subsolidus is distinct from G. tessellatus, and G. albopubescens should be placed in synonymy under G. subsolidus. A formal taxonomic treatment is presented, including description, comments, illustrations, a distribution map, and SEM images of the abaxial leaf epidermis.

Keywords: Gramineae, woody bamboo, SEM, synonymization, Monocots

  Gelidocalamus subsolidus, habit (the smaller bamboo) 

Yuguang Liu, Weijian Li, Ming Tang, Guangyao Yang and Wengen Zhang. 2017. Taxonomic Re-evaluation of Some Gelidocalamus (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) Taxa from Southeast China.
 Phytotaxa.  299(1); 111–117.  DOI:  10.11646/phytotaxa.299.1.9