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Herbarium #
W 0325559
Collection #
W 2005-0018202
Stored under taxon name

Merostachys medullosa Send.
tropicos
IPNI (K) Plants of the World Online / POWO (K)
Flora do Brasil - lista de espécies (RB)
Family
Poaceae
Det./rev./conf./assigned
L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06
Ident. history
orig.: Merostachys; L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06: = Merostachys medullosa
Paratypus of
Merostachys medullosa Send.

Novon 7 (3): 298-300; Fig. 8 (1997-10-03)

Typified by: L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06-15

Collector
wikidata   Index of Botanists (HUH)   VIAF   Bionomia Calderón,C.E. et al. 2451  (link to CETAF Botany Pilot) 
Date
1976-05-25
Location
Brazil / Bahia
Label
Bahia, Brazil. Mun. de Una, 3,5 km S of Una on road Una-Santa Luzia.
Habitat
Growing in forest, partially cut, of coastal type ("mata litorânea") with rather sandy soil.
Habitus
Abundant, in clumps, overarching and climbing over vegetation. Flowering in one spot only and not very abundantly. Culms with rather thick walls, in some parts of the plant filled with pith; surface asperous, mottled green. Culm leaves with long, extended sheaths, the blade obsolete, sometimes a very small one on the top leaves of new culms, soon falling. Foliage leaves with copper-colored oral setae. Inflorescences at end of leaf complement.
Annotations
Collected under the auspices of the Smithonian Institution, National Geographic Society, and Centro de Pesquisas do Cacan (CEPLAC).