Poaceae
Merostachys

Merostachys speciosa Spreng.

First published in Syst. Veg., ed. 16. 1: 249 (1824)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is S. Brazil (to S. São Paulo). It is a bamboo and grows primarily in the wet tropical biome.

Distribution

Native to:

Brazil South, Brazil Southeast

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

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Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Zuloaga, F.O., Morrone, O. , Belgrano, M.J., Marticorena, C. & Marchesi, E. (eds.) (2008). Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Cono Sur. Monographs in Systematic Botany from the Missouri Botanical Garden 107: 1-3348. Missouri Botanical Garden.

Kew Bulletin

  • Andrade, R. S., Pianissola, E. M., Vinícius-Silva, R., Mota, A. C., Clark, L. G. & Oliveira, R. P. (2020). A new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) from the Montane Atlantic Forest of Southern Bahia, Brazil. Syst. Bot. 45: 69 – 74.
  • Bachman, S., Moat, J., Hill, A. W., de la Torre, J. & Scott, B. (2011). Supporting Red List threat assessments with GeoCAT: geospatial conservation assessment tool. Zookeys 150: 117 – 126.
  • Clark, L. G., Londoño, X. & Ruiz-Sanchez, E. (2015). Bamboo taxonomy and habitat. In: W. Liese & M. Köhl (eds), Bamboo: The Plant and its Uses, pp. 1 – 30. Springer, Hamburg.
  • Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI) (2010). ArcMap v.10. ESRI, Redlands, California.
  • Filgueiras, T. S. (1988). Bambus nativos do Distrito Federal, Brasil (Gramineae: Bambusoideae). Rev. Bras. Bot. 11: 47 – 66.
  • Greco, T. M. (2013). Diversidade de Bambus (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) na Ilha de Santa Catarina, Brasil. Dissertação 153 f., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis.
  • Guerreiro, C. (2014). Flowering cycles of woody bamboos native to southern South America. J. Plant Res. 127: 307 – 313.
  • Guilherme, F. A. G. & Ressel, K. (2001). Biologia floral e sistema de reprodução de Merostachys riedeliana (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Rev. Bras. Bot. 24: 205 – 211.
  • IUCN (2019). Guidelines for Using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria. Version 14. Standards and Petitions Committee.
  • Janzen, D. H. (1976). Why bamboos wait so long to flower. Annual Rev. Ecol. Syst. 7: 374 – 391.
  • Judziewicz, E. J., & Clark, L. G. (2007). Classification and biogeography of New World grasses: Anomochlooideae, Pharoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Bambusoideae. Aliso 23: 303 – 314.
  • Judziewicz, E. J., Clark, L. G., Londoño, X. & Stern, M. J. (1999). American Bamboos. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington.
  • Kunth, C. S. (1830). Révision des Graminées. Nova Genera et species Plantarum. Paris.
  • Liebsh, D. & Reginato, M. (2009). Florescimento e frutificação de Merostachys skvortzovii Sendulsky (taquara-lixa) no estado do Paraná. Iheringia 64: 53 – 56.
  • Lima, R. A. F., Rother, D. C., Muler, A. E., Lepsch, I. F. & Rodrigues, R. R. (2012). Bamboo overabundance alters forest structure and dynamics in the Atlantic Forest hotspot. Biol. Conserv. 147: 32 – 39.
  • McClure, F. A. (1966). The Bamboos: a Fresh Perspective. Harvard University Press, Cambridge.
  • Montti, L., Campanello, P. I., Gatti, M. G., Blundo, C., Austin, A. T., Sala, O. E. & Goldstein, G. (2011). Understory bamboo flowering provides a very narrow light window of opportunity for canopy-tree recruitment in a neotropical forest of Misiones, Argentina. Forest Ecol. Managem. 262: 1360 – 1369.
  • Nees, C. G. (1829). Gramineae. In: C. F. P. Martius, A. W. Eichler & I. Urban (eds), Flora Brasiliensis; seu Enumeratio plantarum in Brasilia tam sua sponte quam accedente cultura provenientium, quas in itinere auspiciis Maximiliani Josephi I. Bavariae regis annis 1817 – 1820 peracto collegit, partim descripsit; alias a Maximiliano seren. principe Widensi, sellovio aliisque advectas addidit. Sumptibus J. G. Cottae, Stuttgartiae.
  • Parma, D. F., Pianissola, E. M., Vinícius-Silva, R., Clark, L. G. & Santos-Gonçalves, A. P. (2016). Two new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from the Brazilian Atlantic forest. Phytotaxa 267: 219 – 227.
  • Ruiz-Sanchez, E., Clark, L. G., Mejías-Saulés, T. & Lorea-Hernandéz, F. (2018). A new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) with the northernmost distribution of the genus. Phytotaxa 344: 31 – 38.
  • Ruprecht, F. G. (1839). Bambuseae Monographice Exponit. Typis Academiae Caesareae Sientiarum, St. Petersburg.
  • Santos-Gonçalves, A. P., Carvalho-Okano, R. M. & Filgueiras, T. S. (2012). A new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from southeastern Brazil. Syst. Bot. 37: 938 – 940.
  • Schmidt, R. & Longhi-Wagner, H. M. (2009). A tribo Bambuseae (Poaceae, Bambusoideae) no Rio Grande do Sul. Rev. Bras. Bioci. 7: 71 – 128.
  • Sendulsky, T. (2001). Merostachys Spreng. (Poaceae, Bambusoideae, Bambuseae): a new species from Brazil and critical notes on “group speciosa”. Kew Bull. 56: 627 – 638.
  • Sprengel, C. P. J. (1825). Classis 1 – 5: Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, Tetandria, Petandria. In: C. Linnaei (ed.), Systema Vegetabilium. Dieterich, Gottingen.
  • Thiers, B. (2018). Index Herbariorum: A Global Directory of Public Herbaria and Associated Staff. New York Botanical Garden’s Virtual Herbarium. http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/. Accessed 20 Jan. 2019.
  • Veloso, H. P., Rangel-Filho, A. L. R. & Lima, J. C. A. (1991). Classificação da Vegetação Brasileira Adaptada a um Sistema Universal. Fundação Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE), Rio de Janeiro.
  • Vinícius-Silva, R., Clark L. G., Fregonezi, J. N. & Santos-Gonçalves, A. P. (2021b). Morphological evolution and molecular phylogenetics of the Merostachys clade (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) based on multi-locus plastid sequences. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 195: 53 – 76.
  • Vinícius-Silva, R., Clark, L. G., Fregonezi, J. N. & Santos-Gonçalves, A. P. (2021a). Two new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo and Minas Gerais. Brittonia 73: 167–177.
  • Vinícius-Silva, R., Cupertino-Eisenlohr, M. A., Clark, L. G. & Santos-Gonçalves, A. P. (2016). Two new species of Merostachys (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae: Arthrostylidiinae) from Minas Gerais State, Brazil. Syst. Bot. 41: 959 – 965.
  • Vorontsova, M. S., Clark, L. G., Dransfield, J., Govaerts, R. & Baker, W. J. (2016). World Checklist of Bamboos and Rattans. INBAR Technical Report, n.7. International Network of Bamboo & Rattan, Beijing.
  • ____ & Oliveira, R. P. (2018). Diversity and evolution of the New World bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae, Olyreae). In: S. Lucas (ed.), Proceedings of the 11th World Bamboo Congress, pp. 35 – 47. The World Bamboo Organization, Xalapa.
  • ____, Villagra, M., Campanello, P. I., Gatti, M. G. & Goldstein, G. (2014). Functional traits enhance invasiveness of bamboos over co-occurring tree saplings in the Semideciduous Atlantic Forest. Acta Oecol. 54: 36 – 44.

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Forzza, R.C. & al. (2013). Lista de Espécies da Flora do Brasil http://floradobrasil.jbrj.gov.br/2010/.

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status Has image?
Longhi-Wagner, H. [10314] Brazil K001212496 Yes
Reitz, P.R. [3200] Brazil K001212498 Yes
Ferreira, A.R. [26] K001212500 Yes
Claussen, P. [s.n.] Brazil K000307814 Type Yes
Claussen, P. [s.n.] Brazil K000307812 Type Yes
Claussen, P. [s.n.] Brazil K000307815 Type Yes
Longhi-Wagner, H. [10310] Brazil K001212495 Yes
Longhi-Wagner, H. [10313] Brazil K001212503 Yes
Sellow [s.n.] Brazil K000307813 Unknown Type Material Yes
Sellow [s.n.] Brazil K001212499 Isolectotype Yes
Sellow [s.n.] Brazil K001212502 Isolectotype Yes
Dusén, P. [[1734?]] Brazil K001212501 Yes
Longhi-Wagner, H. [10313] Brazil K001212504 Yes
Longhi-Wagner, H. [10314] Brazil K001212497 Yes

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

    • Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Bulletin

    • Kew Bulletin
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2024. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Neotropikey

    • Milliken, W., Klitgard, B. and Baracat, A. (2009 onwards), Neotropikey - Interactive key and information resources for flowering plants of the Neotropics.
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0