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Taxon: Himalayacalamus hookerianus (Munro) Stapleton

 
Genus: Himalayacalamus
Family: Poaceae (alt.Gramineae)
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Arundinarieae
Subtribe: Arundinariinae
Nomen number: 404239
Place of publication: Newslett. Bamboo Soc. (European Bamboo Soc. Great Brit.) 17:21. 1993
Link to protologue:
Name Verified on: 17-Mar-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions: 0 (0 active, 0 available) in National Plant Germplasm System

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations:

(≡ homotypic synonym, = heterotypic synonym, - autonym, I invalid designation)

Economic Importance:

  • Environmental: ornamental
  • Human food: vegetable

Distributional Range:

    Native

    Asia-Tropical
    • INDIAN SUBCONTINENT: Bhutan (w.), India, [Sikkim, West Bengal] Nepal (e.)


    Cultivated

    Europe
    • NORTHERN EUROPE: United Kingdom


References:

  1. Clark, L. G. 2011. Review of Poaceae Bambusoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e-mail on 22 Jul.
  2. Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening Note: = Drepanostachyum hookerianum
  3. Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world.
  4. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  5. Stapleton, C. M. A. 1994. The bamboos of Nepal & Bhutan Part III: Drepanostachyum, Himalayacalamus, Ampelocalamus, Neomicrocalamus and Chimonobambusa (Gramineae: Poaceae, Bambusoideae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 51:301-330.
  6. Stapleton, C. M. A. 1994. The Blue-stemmed bamboo: Himalayacalamus hookerianus. New Plantsman 1:5-9.
  7. Stapleton, C. 1994. Bamboos of Bhutan: an illustrated guide
  8. Stapleton, C. 1994. Bamboos of Nepal: an illustrated guide

Check other web resources for Himalayacalamus hookerianus (Munro) Stapleton :

  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Databas of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
  • ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
  • Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  • PubAg: USDA's National Agricultural Library database of full-text journal articles and citations on the agricultural sciences.
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: http://gringlobal.iita.org/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?id=404239. Accessed 3 July 2024.