Foliage leaf blade
expanded, strongly cross-veined forming a tessellate pattern, pseudopetiolate; ligule a fringed membrane
Inflorescence
compound, of several racemes, each of 3-5 spikelets subtended by a bract, these gathered into a fascicle and partly enveloped by a spathe; lowermost spikelet sessile
Spikelet
ovoid, not noticeably compressed; glumes ± equal; lower glume shorter than upper, acute; upper glume pointed
Florets
1-several, bisexual; lemma 10-11-nerved, awnless or awned; palea with several nerves
Lodicules
3, membranous, ciliate
Stamens
3
Ovary
glabrous; stigmas 3
x = 12
Nomenclature:
Thamnocalamus
Munro
Munro: 33 (1868)
Soderstrom & Ellis: 53 (1982)
Clayton & Renvoize: 43 (1986)
Gibbs Russell et al.: 333 (1990)
Watson & Dallwitz: 935 (1994)
Distribution & Notes:
Global
: Species ± 6, E Asia, Africa
Southern Africa
: Species 1:
Thamnocalamus tessellatus
(Nees) Soderstrom & R.P.Ellis, Free State, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho and Eastern Cape
References:
CLAYTON, W.D. & RENVOIZE S.A. 1986. Genera graminum. Grasses of the world.
Kew Bulletin
. Additional series 13
GIBBS RUSSELL, G.E., WATSON, L., KOEKEMOER, M., SMOOK, L., BARKER, N.P., ANDERSON, H.M. & DALLWITZ. M.J. 1990. Grasses of southern Africa.
Memoirs of the Botanical Survey of South Africa
No. 58
MUNRO, W. 1868. A monograph ot the
Bambusaceae
, including descriptions of all the species.
Transactions of the Linnean Society
26
SODERSTROM, T.R. & ELLIS, R.P. 1982. Taxonomic status of the endemic South African bamboo,
Thamnocalamus tessellatus
.
Bothalia
14
WATSON, L. & DALLWITZ, M.J. 1994.
The grass genera of the world
, revised edn. CAB International, Oxon
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