Collection #
W 2005-0018197
Det./rev./conf./assigned
L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06
Ident. history
orig.: Merostachys; L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06: = Merostachys medullosa
Isotypus of
Merostachys medullosa Send.
Novon 7 (3): 298-300; Fig. 8 (1997-10-03)
Typified by: L. Pignotti (W) 2011-06-15
Location
Brazil / Bahia
Label
Bahia, Brazil. Municipio Porto Seguro: Forested sloped of morro on Fazenda Carvalho, ca. 26 km west of town of Monte Pascoal, at end of road that intersects with BR 101 in Monte Pascoal. Robust bamboo on upper slopes of mountain from 380m to summit at 460m elev.
Alt. 380 m
- 460 m
Habitat
Growing in association with Atractantha (2211) & Merostachys (2213).
Habitus
Clumps of ca. 50 culms, the culms solid, not erect but arching over immediately, 10-15m long, 2cm. diam., with thick walls and filled with pith, scaberulous and striated-mottled dark and light green. Culm leaves: sheath becomes brown and shed when branches develop; blade small, reflexed, caducous. When new culm freshly cut the pith is white but within several minutes begins to turn red and then brown. All clumps sterile except one in which culms are dead and bearing branches with old inflorescences from which most spikelets have fallen.
Annotations
Collected under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution, National Geographic Society and Centro de Pesquisas do Cacan (CEPLAC).
ex US
