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Taxon: Chusquea culeou E. Desv.

Genus: Chusquea
Family: Poaceae (alt. Gramineae) subfamily: Bambusoideae tribe: Bambuseae.
Nomen number: 10523
Place of publication: C. Gay, Fl. chil. 6:450, t. 83, fig. 2. 1854
Name verified on: 14-Jan-1997 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 20-May-1997
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).

NO ACCESSIONS IN NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.

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Common names:

  • colihue   (Source: Clark, pers. comm.) – Spanish (Chile)
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Economic importance:


Distributional range:

      Native:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Southern South America: Argentina - Chubut, Neuquen, Rio Negro; Chile - La Araucania, Los Lagos

      Cultivated:
  • SOUTHERN AMERICA
    Southern South America: Chile

References:

  • Clark, L. G. 2011. pers. comm. [common name].
  • Correa, M. N. 1969–. Flora patagonica.
  • Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
  • Instituto de Botánica Darwinion. 2008. Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares.
  • Judziewicz, E. J. et al. 2000. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 39:39.
  • Marchesini, V. et al. 2009. Ecological consequences of a massive flowering event of bamboo (Chusquea culeou) in a temperate forest of Patagonia, Argentina. J. Veget. Sci. 20:424–432.
  • Moreno, P. A. et al. 2010. Use of Guadua angustifolia stems in the particleboard production. Forest Syst. 19:241–248. [mentions].
  • Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world.
  • Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
  • Walters, S. M. et al., eds. 1986–. European garden flora.
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Check other web resources for Chusquea culeou E. Desv.:

  • Flora del Conosur: Catálogo de las Plantas Vasculares del Conosur
  • TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
  • CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
  • World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
  • Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database 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.

Check other web resources for images:

  • PlantSystematics.org
  • Google Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

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Cite as:
USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database].
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?10523 (20 May 2013)

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