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A MORPHOLOGICAL STUDY OF ALVIMIA (POACEAE: BAMBUSEAE), A NEW BRAZILIAN BAMBOO GENUS WITH FLESHY FRUITS
Author(s) -
Soderstrom Thomas R.,
Londoño Ximena
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
american journal of botany
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.218
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1537-2197
pISSN - 0002-9122
DOI - 10.1002/j.1537-2197.1988.tb13505.x
Subject(s) - biology , bamboo , habit , genus , botany , poaceae , climbing , stamen , pollen , ecology , psychology , psychotherapist
Alvimia is a new genus of climbing bamboo that occurs in a relatively small area of restinga of coastal Bahia, Brazil. It is easily distinguished from other genera of the New World by a combination of several features: fleshy fruits, flowers with two stamens arranged in pseudospikelets, and the climbing habit. The Brazilian Alvimia , Mexican Olmeca , and one Peruvian species of Guadua are the only bamboos from America with fleshy fruits, a feature also found in a few Asiatic bamboos such as Dinochloa, Melocalamus, Melocanna , and Ochlandra. Three new species in Alvimia are described: A. auriculata, A. gracilis , and A. lancifolia.