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03DDAC67E717DB46FF0CFB92FC6DFF36.text	03DDAC67E717DB46FF0CFB92FC6DFF36.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gigantochloa brachystachya Q. M. Qin, Y. Zeng & N. H. Xia 2023	<div><p>Gigantochloa brachystachya Q. M. Qin, Y. Zeng &amp; N. H. Xia, sp. nov., Figs. 1–2</p><p>Type: — CHNIA. Yunnan: Jinghong City, Damenglong, Manjingkang, elev. 662 m, 5 September 2012, Yi Zeng 26 (holotype IBSC!).</p><p>Diagnosis:— Gigantochloa brachystachya is similar to G. levis (Blanco 1837: 272) Merrill (1916: 61), but differs in the infranodal region with a ring of white (vs. brown) hairs, culm leaf blade erect (vs. reflexed), auricle smaller (ca. 1 cm × 1 mm vs. ca. 2 cm × 7 mm) and linear (vs. oblong), ligule 5–10 mm (vs. 3–6 mm) tall, leaf sheath glabrous (vs. white-hispid), ligule 3–5 mm (vs. ca. 1 mm) tall, and outer ligule ca. 2–2.5 mm (vs. ca. 0.5 mm) tall (Table 1).</p><p>Description: —Rhizomes pachymorph. Culms erect, 12–15 m tall, 3–7 cm in diam., walls ca. 1 cm thick, lower nodes with a few verticillate aerial roots; internodes 32–42 cm long, terete, greyish-green, white pubescent; node slightly prominent, intranode ca. 1 cm tall, with a ring of pale brown hairs, infranodal region with a ring of white hairs. Branches 0.5–1.0 m long, developing from the 7 th –14 th node above the ground, numerous, dominant branch inconspicuous. Culm leaf sheath deciduous, leathery, densely black setose abaxially, 1/2 as long as internodes; blades erect, lanceolate, 1/4 as long as culm leaf sheaths; auricles linear, ca. 1 cm wide and ca. 1 mm tall, margin with oral setae; ligule 5–10 mm tall, dentate. Foliage leaves 8–11 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous, margin ciliate; auricles absent; ligule 3–5 mm tall, dentate; outer ligule 2.0– 2.5 mm tall; petiole 3–5 mm long; blades lanceolate, 33–41× 3.0– 4.2 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 10–12 pairs. Inflorescence iterauctant; pseudospikelets densely clustered at nodes of flowering branches, 9–11 mm long, 2.9–3.4 mm wide, with (1–) 2 or 3 glumes, 3 perfect florets and a terminal sterile floret consisting of only an empty lemma ca. 8 mm long; rachilla very short; lemma 7.5–11.0 mm long, abaxially glabrous, with a short terminal mucro and short-hairy fringes; palea 6.5–8.0 mm long, 0.8–2.0 mm wide, keels 2, keels and margins ciliate, 3 or 4 veins between keels, and 1 or 2 outside each keel; lodicules absent or rarely 1; stamens 6, filaments united into a tube, translucent; anthers yellow, 5–6 mm long, with an apical hairy mucro ca. 0.3 mm long; ovary subcylindrical with a slightly expanded, thickened and hairy apex, ca. 1.4 mm long; style terminating in a single hairy stigma, 1.0– 1.2 cm long. Caryopsis ca. 1 cm long.</p><p>Distribution and Habitat: — Gigantochloa brachystachya is endemic to Yunnan, China. It was cultivated near villages at an elevation of about 600 m.</p><p>Phenology: New shoots August to September, flowering September.</p><p>Etymology: —The specific epithet is derived from its short and small spikelets.</p><p>Additional specimens examined (paratypes): — CHINA. Yunnan: Mengla, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.25&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=21.916666" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.25/lat 21.916666)">Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden</a>, 21°55’N, 101°15’E, elev. 548 m, 31 August 2012, Yi Zeng 18 (IBSC); Yi Zeng 17 (IBSC, only the culm leaf sheath); ibid., elev. 540–550 m, 19 October 2016, Qiao-Mei Qin 140, 141, 142 (IBSC) .</p><p>Chinese vernacular names:—ḂDzfflfi (pinyin: duǎn suì jù zhú).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DDAC67E717DB46FF0CFB92FC6DFF36	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qin, Qiao-Mei;Tong, Yi-Hua;Zeng, Yi;Cai, Zhuo-Yu;Ni, Jing-Bo;Xia, Nian-He	Qin, Qiao-Mei, Tong, Yi-Hua, Zeng, Yi, Cai, Zhuo-Yu, Ni, Jing-Bo, Xia, Nian-He (2023): Two new species of Gigantochloa (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 616 (1): 79-88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6
03DDAC67E712DB46FF0CFD88FC48FA1A.text	03DDAC67E712DB46FF0CFD88FC48FA1A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gigantochloa maneensis Q. M. Qin, N. H. Xia & J. B. Ni 2023	<div><p>Gigantochloa maneensis Q. M. Qin, N. H. Xia &amp; J. B. Ni, sp. nov., Figs. 1−2</p><p>Type:— CHINA. Yunnan, Mengla County, Menglun, cultivated in Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, introduced from Man’e Village, 8 August 2017, Qiao-Mei Qin, Juan Chen &amp; Su Li QQM-319 (holotype IBSC!) .</p><p>Diagnosis: — Gigantochloa maneensis is similar to G. callosa, but differs in the intranodes with a ring of white hairs (vs. glabrous), infranodal regions with a ring of white (vs. brown) hairs, culm leaf sheath without stripe (vs. with yellow stripes initially) and densely black- (vs. brown- and gray-) hispid abaxially, erect (vs. reflexed) culm sheath blades, oblong (vs. rhombic) culm sheath auricles, 6–7 mm (vs. ca. 10 mm) wide, and sparsely brown-hispid (vs. white-pubescent) foliage leaf sheaths (Table 1).</p><p>Description:— Rhizomes pachymorph. Culms erect, ca. 10 m tall, 5–7 cm in diam., walls ca. 2.5 cm thick, lower nodes with a few verticillate aerial roots; internodes 20–30 cm long, terete, greyish-green with yellow stripes, white-pubescent; nodes slightly prominent, intranode ca. 1 cm tall, with a ring of white hairs, infranodal region with a ring of white hairs. Branches 0.5–1.5 m long, developing from the 5 th –8 th node above the ground, numerous, dominant branches inconspicuous. Culm leaf sheath deciduous, leathery, nearly as long as internodes, densely brown-hispid abaxial surface with deciduous trichomes; blade erect, lanceolate, 1/3–1/2 as long as culm leaf sheath; auricles oblong, 6–7 mm wide and ca. 3 mm tall; ligule 2–3 mm tall, dentate. Foliage leaves 7–9 per ultimate branch; sheath sparsely brown-hispid, with deciduous trichomes; auricles absent; ligule ca. 2 mm tall; outer ligules ca. 2 mm high; petiole ca. 2 mm long; blades 13–30 cm × 1.5–3.0 cm, lanceolate, apex acuminate, glabrous, longitudinal veins 6–8 pairs. Pseudospikelets densely clustered at nodes of flowering branches, 8.5–11.0 mm long, with 3–4 glumes, 2 perfect florets and a terminal sterile floret consisting of only an empty; rachilla very short; lemma 7–8 mm long, apex mucronate, margins ciliate; palea 6.0– 7.5 mm long and ca. 1 mm wide, apex bifid, 2-keeled, keels and margins ciliate, 2 veins between keels, 1 vein on each side; stamens 6, filaments united into a tube, translucent; anthers yellow, 4–5 mm long, with an apical hairy mucro ca. 0.5 mm long; ovary subcylindrical with a slightly expanded, thickened and hairy apex, ca. 0.7 mm long; style terminating in a single hairy stigma, 7–8 mm long. Caryopsis ca. 6 mm long.</p><p>Distribution and Habitat: —This species is cultivated in Man’e Village, Menglun Town, Mengla County, Yunnan Province, and then introduced to Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. Wild population has not been found so far.</p><p>Phenology: —New shoots October to November, flowering August to September.</p><p>Etymology: —The specific epithet is derived from the type locality, Man’e Village.</p><p>Additional specimens examined (paratypes): — CHINA. Yunnan: Mengla, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=101.433334&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=21.683332" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 101.433334/lat 21.683332)">Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden</a>, 21°41’N, 101°26’E, elev. 570 m, 18 November, 2010, Ping-Yuan Wang C130036 (HITBC) ; ibid., 12 October 2011, Ping-Yuan Wang C130092 (HITBC).</p><p>Chinese vernacular names:—AENJfflfi (pinyin: màn é jù zhú).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DDAC67E712DB46FF0CFD88FC48FA1A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qin, Qiao-Mei;Tong, Yi-Hua;Zeng, Yi;Cai, Zhuo-Yu;Ni, Jing-Bo;Xia, Nian-He	Qin, Qiao-Mei, Tong, Yi-Hua, Zeng, Yi, Cai, Zhuo-Yu, Ni, Jing-Bo, Xia, Nian-He (2023): Two new species of Gigantochloa (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 616 (1): 79-88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6
03DDAC67E710DB45FF0CF8EBFA77FF18.text	03DDAC67E710DB45FF0CF8EBFA77FF18.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Gigantochloa Kurz ex Munro 1868	<div><p>Key to the species of Gigantochloa in China</p><p>1a. Branches several, without a dominant branch; leaf sheath outer ligule more than 2 mm tall.</p><p>2a. Culm sheath ligule less than 5 mm tall; auricle more than 2 mm tall.</p><p>3a. Culm sheath blade reflexed; auricle prismatic, up to 10 mm wide; ligule entire; leaf sheath ligule more than 2 mm tall.................. ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 1. G. callosa</p><p>3b. Culm sheath blade erect; auricle oblong, 6–7 mm wide; ligule dentate; leaf sheath ligule less than 2 mm tall.................................. ......................................................................................................................................................................................2. G. manensis</p><p>2b. Culm sheath ligule 10 mm tall; auricle linear, 10 mm wide, less than 1 mm tall ............................................... 3. G. brachystachya</p><p>1b. Branches with a dominant branch; leaf sheath outer ligule less than 1 mm tall.</p><p>4a. Abaxial culm sheath with stripes, ligule less than 10 mm tall.</p><p>5a. Culm sheath abaxially sparsely hispid with brown to black deciduous hairs, strigose; blade erect; auricle narrowly falcate; ligule 6–10 mm tall.................................................................................................................................................................. 4. G. glabrata</p><p>5b. Culm sheath abaxially densely dark brown hispid; blade reflexed; auricle oval; ligule ca. 4 mm tall .................... 5. G. nigrociliata</p><p>4b. Abaxial culm sheath without stripes, ligule more than 10 mm tall.</p><p>6a. Intranodes glabrous; culm sheath blade reflexed; auricle more than 10 mm wide ................................................... 6. G. albociliata</p><p>6b. Intranodes with hairs; culm sheath blade erect; auricle less than 10 mm wide.</p><p>7a. Branching from 8–10 th nodes above ground; infranodes glabrous; abaxial culm sheath with sparsely black strigose; blade lanceolate; leaf sheath densely brown strigose.......................................................................................................................................7. G. felix</p><p>7b. Branching from 13-15 th nodes above ground; infra nodes with a ring of wihte hairs; abaxial culm sheath with sparsely brown strigose; blade oval lanceolate; leaf sheath glabrous...................................................................................................8. G. parviflora</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03DDAC67E710DB45FF0CF8EBFA77FF18	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Qin, Qiao-Mei;Tong, Yi-Hua;Zeng, Yi;Cai, Zhuo-Yu;Ni, Jing-Bo;Xia, Nian-He	Qin, Qiao-Mei, Tong, Yi-Hua, Zeng, Yi, Cai, Zhuo-Yu, Ni, Jing-Bo, Xia, Nian-He (2023): Two new species of Gigantochloa (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Yunnan, China. Phytotaxa 616 (1): 79-88, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.616.1.6
