Published November 25, 2015 | Version v1
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Cryptochloa Swallen

  • 1. Instituto Tecnológico de Chetumal, Av. Insurgentes 330, David Gustavo Gtz, 77013 Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico;

Description

Cryptochloa Swallen

Herbaceous, monoecious and cespitose plants; culms monomorph with several nodes, erect; leaves short petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous and sometimes abaxially purple; synflorescences terminal, racemose, with 5–10 staminate spikelets and one pistillate spikelet; axillary synflorescences paniculiform or racemiform, bisexual with 2–5 pistillate spikelets and 5–20 staminate spikelets.

1 species in Mexico: Cryptochloa strictiflora. Mexico to Ecuador; Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz; 0–500 m (Fig.

8C–D).

Notes

Published as part of Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo, Clark, Lynn G., Londoño, Ximena, Mejía-Saulés, Teresa & Rodríguez, Gilberto Cortés, 2015, Morphological keys to the genera and species of bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) of Mexico, pp. 1-24 in Phytotaxa 236 (1) on pages 19-20, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.236.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13631250

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Biodiversity

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Cryptochloa
Kingdom
Plantae
Order
Poales
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Scientific name authorship
Swallen
Taxon rank
genus