Abstract
A new species of Dendrocalamus Nees new names in Sinocalamus McClure, which was (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), D. longivaginatus N. H. reduced to a synonym of Dendrocalamus Nees by Xia, V. T. Nguyen & V. L. Le, is illustrated and Chia & Fung (1980). In a preliminary enumeration of described from Phu Tho, Vietnam. This species is the bamboos of Vietnam, there were considered to be known only from the northern provinces of Vietnam: 29 species potentially present for this genus in Phu Tho, Yen Bai, and Ha Giang. It is morpholog- Vietnam, but only 14 of them are formally established ically similar to D. brandisii (Munro) Kurz, a widely with scientific names (Nguyen, 2006). distributed bamboo from Thailand, Myanmar, China, During studies on Dendrocalamus from Vietnam, and Vietnam, but differs by the ligules of the culm the authors carried out a survey in northern Vietnam, sheath, which are irregularly fimbriate, slightly with specimens of a distinctive bamboo collected in concave, and 7-9 mm, and by the pseudo-spikelets, Phu Tho, Yen Bai, and Ha Giang Provinces. This new which are (5-)13-16 mm with lemmas 9-11.5 mm. species of Dendrocalamus, locally known as Dind ´
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