Bambusa fecunda
Bambusa fecunda McClure, Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. No. 9, 1940: 9.
Thai name: No known records.
Chinese name: 硬头黄竹 (yìng tóu huáng zhú).
Distribution: THAILAND: Plants under the name "Bambusa fecunda" were introduced from Taiwan into Thailand in 2013; in cultivation, rare. — CHINA (South).
Images: Photo in Plants of Taiwan (type) [#1106a].
Comments:
(1) Flowers unknown.
(2) Bambusa fecunda is considered synonymous with Bambusa boniopsis, according to the Flora of China [#1303].
(3) Bambusa fecunda was misidentified as Bambusa rigida; cf. Kinmen Forestry.
Specimen: BS-0788 [-] (living plant), received as "Bambusa fecunda" from cultivated stock from Taiwan, Dec. 2013.
Characteristics: Culms over 10 m tall. Culm-internodes very thick-walled. Branches from the basal nodes up. Culm-leaves deciduous, almost glabrous. Culm-leaf auricles unequal, with oral setae.
Comments:
(1) The plant received looks similar to Bambusa dolichoclada, not Bambusa boniopsis.
(2) Plants in Thailand are very rare and distributed as ไผ่อุดมสมบูรณ์ไต้หวัน (phai udom sombun taiwan).
"Bambusa fecunda" (BS-0788): Apex of a culm-leaf, adaxial surface