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Melocanna
Sign in to saveMelocanna is a genus of Asian clumping bamboo in the grass family.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassLiliopsida
- OrderPoales
- FamilyPoaceae
Common Name: taben daing.
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 37
- With media
- 33
- Family
- Poaceae
- Collections
- US, MO, MICH, BPBM, NY
- Recorded in
- Philippines, China, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Vietnam
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Melocanna is a genus of Asian clumping bamboo in the grass family.
The 48-year cycle of M. baccifera in northeastern India is responsible for the phenomenon called "mautam" or "bamboo death", in which large populations of bamboo flower at the same time, this being followed by a plague of rats, which in turn triggers a famine within the human populations. Species Melocanna arundina C.E.Parkinson – Thailand, Myanmar; naturalized in parts of southern China Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Kurz - Nagaland, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Mizoram, Manipur, Bangladesh, Myanmar; sparingly naturalized in parts of West Indies and South America Formerly included see Bambusa, Cephalostachyum, Gigantochloa, Nastus, Ochlandra, and Schizostachyum
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