taxonID	type	description	language	source
794C4E607A5B5D3580A54F059DAE22BB.taxon	description	Figs 3, 4, 5	en	Zhang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Ru-Li, Zhao, Hu-Gang (2024): Yushania dezhui (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new bamboo species from Yunnan, China. PhytoKeys 246: 1-14, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.246.130177
794C4E607A5B5D3580A54F059DAE22BB.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Yushania dezhui resembles Y. maculata T. P. Yi, Y. polytricha Hsueh & T. P. Yi and Y. weixiensis T. P. Yi, but differs in having rhizome necks much thicker than culms, glabrous culm leaf sheaths, internodes and sheath scars, auricles and oral setae of most foliage leaves usually absent and the one-year-old foliage leaves with pubescence adaxially.	en	Zhang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Ru-Li, Zhao, Hu-Gang (2024): Yushania dezhui (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new bamboo species from Yunnan, China. PhytoKeys 246: 1-14, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.246.130177
794C4E607A5B5D3580A54F059DAE22BB.taxon	description	Description. Rhizomes pachymorph, necks 2 – 30 cm long, 0.5 – 1.2 cm in diameter, internodes 0.2 – 1 cm long, solid. Culms diffuse, 0.4 – 1.8 m tall, 1 – 5 mm in diameter, subsolid; internodes 2.5 – 21.5 cm long, terete, purple-spotted initially, slightly white powdery below the nodes; nodes slightly prominent; sheath scars corky. Branches 3 – 12, slender and equal. Culm leaves tardily deciduous, ca. 1 / 2 as long as the internode; sheaths glabrous abaxially, green or purple apically, margins ciliate, occasionally white pubescent at the base; auricles linear or absent, usually present on upper culm leaves; oral setae several when auricles present; ligules truncate, 1 – 2 mm tall, green or purple, margins ciliate or not; blades linear, recurved, glabrous, 0.3 – 2.3 cm long. Foliage leaves 3 – 5 per ultimate branch; sheaths glabrous, green, purple or purple-green, 2.5 – 5.2 cm long, margins glabrous; auricles and oral setae usually absent, except present on the one-year-old foliage leaves, auricles linear, green or purple; ligules truncate, 1 – 2 mm tall, green or purple; blades 2.5 – 12.5 × 0.5 – 1.3 cm, pubescent adaxially for the one-year-old blades, glabrescent later, glabrous abaxially, secondary veins 2 – 4 - paired, transverse veins conspicuous, margins serrate on both sides. Inflorescence unknown.	en	Zhang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Ru-Li, Zhao, Hu-Gang (2024): Yushania dezhui (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new bamboo species from Yunnan, China. PhytoKeys 246: 1-14, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.246.130177
794C4E607A5B5D3580A54F059DAE22BB.taxon	distribution	Distribution and habitat. This new species is found in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It usually occurs in limestone montane areas at elevations of 2100 – 2400 m in the understorey of forests of Quercus longispica (Handel-Mazzetti) A. Camus, Castanopsis delavayi Franchet or Cupressus sp.	en	Zhang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Ru-Li, Zhao, Hu-Gang (2024): Yushania dezhui (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new bamboo species from Yunnan, China. PhytoKeys 246: 1-14, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.246.130177
794C4E607A5B5D3580A54F059DAE22BB.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet honours Professor De-Zhu Li of Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, who has made great contributions to the taxonomy, molecular phylogeny, evolution and biogeography of bamboos and promoted the collaboration of bamboo research around the world.	en	Zhang, Yu-Xiao, Zhang, Chao, Zhang, Ru-Li, Zhao, Hu-Gang (2024): Yushania dezhui (Poaceae, Bambusoideae), a new bamboo species from Yunnan, China. PhytoKeys 246: 1-14, DOI: 10.3897/phytokeys.246.130177
