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(Last Modified On 10/29/2013)
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Species
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Guadua tagoara (Nees) Kunth
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PlaceOfPublication
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Enum. P1. 1: 434. 1833.
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Synonym
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Bambusa tagoara Nees, Agrost. Brasil. 532. 1829.
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Note
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TYPE: Brazil. Sao Paulo: Serra do Mar, towards Guarantinguetai, Mar- tius s.n. (holotype, M? n.v.).
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Description
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Woody and thorny bamboo; culms 20-30 m x 6-10(- 15) cm, erect, arching above, the internodes hollow, scabrous. Culm leaves deciduous, covered with fine appressed brown hairs; sheaths 17-38 x 20-30 cm, lacking auricles and setae; inner ligule 2-4 mm long; outer ligule absent; blades 3-7 x 9-13 cm, very broadly triangular, erect, persistent. Foliage leaves with sheaths ciliate on the margins and often with a line of hairs on one side of the midnerve, otherwise glabrous; auricles absent or rarely present and up to 5 mm long, bearing setae 8- 10 mm long at the summit; pseudopetiole ca. 10 mm long, glabrous; blades 21-30 x 3-7 cm, broad- ly ovate-lanceolate, glabrous. Synflorescence with axes glabrous. Pseudospikelets 1-3 cm x 3-6 mm, straight, 4-6-flowered; lemma 6-8 x 5-7 mm, papillose abaxially, silky-pubescent adaxially, ciliate on the margins; palea 7-9 x 3-5 mm, exceeding the lemma, puberulous, the keels with puberulent, ciliolate wings ca. 1 mm wide.
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Habit
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bamboo
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Note
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Wet forest edges below 1,000 m
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Elevation
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below 1,000 m
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Distribution
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eastern Brazil (Bahia to Santa Catarina).
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Specimen
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BRAZIL. BAHIA: Mun. Itajuipe, 2 km S of Pimenteira on road to Uni&o Queimada, Fazenda Sao Jorge, elev. 500 m, 5 May 1976, Soderstrom, Rus- sell & Hage 2186 (CEPEC, US); Mun. Gandu, 2 km N of Gandu City on BR-101, Fazenda Santo Antonio, ca. 13?44'S, 39029'W, 19 Apr. 1972, Calder6n & Pinheiro 2228 (CEPEC, US); Mun. Mascote, 20 km E of Camaca, 9 km W of Santa Luzia do Salobro on road to Canaveiras, edge of Rio Belem, elev. 90 m, 7 Apr. 1976, Soderstrom, Russell & Hage 2128 (CEPEC, US); Mun. Jequie, ca. 40 km SE of Jequie on road to Ipiau, elev. 175 m, 16 May 1976, Calder6n, dos Santos & Oliveira 2439 (CEPEC, US).
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