Bonia Balansa

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Clump-forming scrambling bamboos, small to medium sized. Rhizomes short necked, pachymorph. Culms solid or nearly so; nodes slightly prominent. Branches solitary, nearly as thick as culms. Culm sheaths persistent, leathery; auricles subfalcate to broadly falcate, large; ligule short; blade erect. Leaf blade lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, usually large, base truncate; venation not tessellate. Inflorescence iterauctant, fully bracteate, arising from axil of persistent spathiform bracts; prophylls 2-keeled, gemmiferous, inserted at point of branching, closely followed by 2 or 3 closely spaced, gemmiferous bracts. Pseudospikelets 3–9-flowered, uppermost floret imperfect; first fertile lemma separated from gemmiferous bracts by rachilla segment to 1 cm. Rachilla disarticulating between florets, internodes to 1 cm. Lemma subleathery; palea of lowest floret slightly longer than lemma, subleathery; palea of other florets much shorter than lemma, membranous; lodicules 3, glabrous. Stamens 6; filaments free. Ovary glabrous; style very short; stigmas 3, plumose. Caryopsis terete, glabrous.
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Distribution

Bonia world distribution map, present in China and Viet Nam

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:17611-1
WFO ID wfo-4000004970
COL ID 8VVNB
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Synonyms

Bonia

Lower taxons

Bonia amplexicaulis Bonia levigata Bonia parvifloscula Bonia saxatilis Bonia tonkinensis