Oreobambos buchwaldii
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Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
Photo: Stefaan Dondeyne
Tava Marsh, Moribane Forest
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| Synonyms: | |
| Common names: | Buchwa bamboo (English) |
| Frequency: | Probably rare and local |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
A robust tree-like bamboo, growing in small dense patches or solitary clumps. Culms up to 20 m tall, 5-10 cm in diameter, usually drooping or spreading, rarely erect, green, hollow. Culm-sheaths covered with appressed bristle-like hairs when young, fimbriate at the mouth, with a short subulate lamina. Leaf-sheaths glabrous at the mouth. Leaf-laminae 10-35 × 2·5-6 cm, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, very obscurely tessellate, usually glabrous, pale green or somewhat glaucous, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescence very large, loose; clusters of spikelets 1.5-2 × 0.8-2.25 cm, up to twice their length apart. Bracts 8-14 mm. long, ovate-elliptic, keeled, dark-brown, ciliate along the keel. Spikelets 12-15 mm long, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate in lateral view, brown, usually somewhat glossy. Superior glume 9-11 mm. long. Lemmas 10-13·5 mm long, broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, with the apex obtuse or subacute. Paleas 8-12 mm long. |
| Type location: |
Tanzania |
| Notes: | The colony at Tava Marsh, shown in the photographs, appears to be a first record for Mozambique. |
| Derivation of specific name: | |
| Habitat: | In clearings in rainforest, swampy forest and along mountain streams |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
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| Worldwide distribution: | Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| FZ divisions: | MS |
| Growth form(s): | Shrub over 2 m. |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | |
| Insects associated with this species: | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Images last updated: | Saturday 4 August 2012 |
| Literature: |
Burrows, J.E. & Willis, C.K. (eds) (2005). Plants of the Nyika Plateau Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 31 SABONET, Pretoria Page 354. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 42. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 95. (Includes a picture). Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 231. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 168. Jackson, G. & Wiehe, P.O. (1958). An Annotated Check List of Nyasaland Grasses The Government Printer, Zomba, Nyasaland Page 49. Launert, E. (1971). Poaceae Flora Zambesiaca 10(1) Pages 19 - 20. (Includes a picture). Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 107. Phiri, P.S.M. (2005). A Checklist of Zambian Vascular Plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 32 Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 150. White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Pages 102 - 103. |
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