Yersinochloa gen. nov. (Gramineae: Bambusoideae‐Bambusineae) endemic to the Lam Vien Plateau, southern Vietnam

Abstract

A clambering bamboo endemic to the Lam Vien plateau, southern Vietnam and representing a new monotypic endemic genus, Yersinochloa H. N. Nguyen & V. T. Tran (Gramineae–Bambusoideae–Bambusinae), is described and illustrated. It has an indeterminate inflorescence, terminate leafy branches, pseudo‐spikelets with only one perfect floret, unkeeled palea, three lodicules, six stamens with free filaments, anther apices with tiny spines, glabrous ovary with a long style, 3 plumose stigmas, and an oblong caryopsis with a relatively thin pericarp.

Yersinochloa nghiana, a new species (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Bambuseae) from southern Vietnam

“…Recently, the morphology of clambering or scrambling bamboo genera in the tribe Bambuseae Kunth ex Nees, subtribe Bambusinae J. S. Presl have been reviewed in depth ( Nguyen and Tran 2012 ; Nguyen et al 2013 ; Nguyen and Tran 2016 ). Seven distinct clambering or scrambling bamboo genera in Asia are currently recognised: 1) Maclurochloa K.M.…”

“…Tran from southern Vietnam ( Nguyen and Tran 2016 ). The systematics of these clambering or scrambling bamboo genera have traditionally been given by vegetative and productive characters ( Nguyen and Tran 2016 ). One of these, Yersinochloa H.N.…”

“…Nguyen & V.T. Tran of Vietnam, is specially characterised by pseudo-spikelets with only one perfect floret, unkeeled palea and anther apices with tiny spines ( Nguyen and Tran 2016 ).…”

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“…China (among many others Liu et al , Wang et al , Zhou et al ), India (among many others Chorghe et al , Gogoi and Borah ), Thailand (Kidyoo ) and Vietnam (Averyanov et al ) in Asia, Ukraine and Spain in Europe (Chkalov , Blanca et al ), Tanzania, South Africa and Madagascar in Africa (Cupido , Stone , Byng ), Brazil (Wilmot‐Dear et al , Freitas et al ) and Guatemala (Archila et al ) in South America, and Mexico in North America (González‐Gallegos and Castro‐Castro , Vázquez‐García et al ). Likewise, our taxonomic contributions cover all major vascular plant groups from orchids (Hall et al , Sanguinetti , Szlachetko and Kolanowska , Kumar et al ) and bamboos (Nguyen and Tran ) to Asteraceae (Øllgaard , Attar et al , Negaresh and Rahiminejad , Nilsson and Tyler ). Mycology and lichenology also has a natural position in our content, with important recent contributions such as those by Ekman (), Jüriado et al (, ), Hestmark (), Liu and He () and Spirin et al ().…”