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Guadua Kunth

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Rhizomes sympodium. Culms caespitose, erect; internodes terete, without white powder, culm walls thick; sheath nodes a little prominent; culm nodes flat. Culm bud one. Branches many with a primary and strong one, lateral branches small, branchlets forming thorns. Culm sheaths deciduous, with short setae abaxially; auricles absent; blades erect, sessile, nearly triangular, the base as broad as the top of culm sheaths. Inflorescence iterautant; pseudospikelets with several florets, the anther of the top floret sterile; ridges of keels of palea winglike; stamens 6; stigmas 3. Caryopses. Shooting in autumn.

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  1. Southwest Flower Research and Development Center, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Kunming, China

    Jun Yi Shi & Jun Yao

  2. Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China

    Yu Xiao Zhang

  3. Sichuan Agricultural University, Dujiangyan, Chengdu, China

    Li Sha Ma

  4. Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

    Jing Xia Liu

  5. Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, China

    De Qun Zhou

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Shi, J.Y., Zhang, Y.X., Zhou, D.Q., Ma, L.S., Yao, J., Liu, J.X. (2020). Guadua Kunth. In: Illustrated Flora of Bambusoideae in China. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8580-2_6-1

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