- Family: Poaceae Barnhart
- Genus: Sasa Makino & Shibata
Sasa veitchii (Carrière) Rehder
- Genus: Sasa Makino & Shibata
This species is accepted, and its native range is Sakhalin to Japan (S. Honshu).
[GB]
- Habit
- Perennial. Rhizomes elongated; leptomorph. Culms erect; 100-150 cm long; woody. Culm-internodes terete; thin-walled; distally glabrous. Culm-nodes glabrous. Lateral branches ample; arising from lower culm. Bud complement 1. Branch complement one; solitary; as thick as stem. Culm-sheaths persistent; glabrous; without auricles. Leaf-sheaths glabrous on surface. Leaf-sheath oral hairs setose. Ligule an eciliate membrane. Leaf-blade base with a brief petiole-like connection to sheath. Leaf-blades oblong; 20-25 cm long; 40-50 mm wide; withering along margins. Leaf-blade surface glabrous. Leaf-blade apex acuminate.
- Inflorescences
- Inflorescence a panicle. Panicle open; oblong; 10 cm long. Spikelets solitary. Fertile spikelets pedicelled.
- Spikelets
- Spikelets comprising 4-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear; laterally compressed; 20-35 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes 4-5 mm long; pubescent.
- Fertile
- Spikelets comprising 4-8 fertile florets; with diminished florets at the apex. Spikelets linear; laterally compressed; 20-35 mm long; breaking up at maturity; disarticulating below each fertile floret. Rhachilla internodes 4-5 mm long; pubescent.
- Glume
- Glumes persistent; similar; shorter than spikelet; thinner than fertile lemma. Lower glume lanceolate; 1 mm long; scarious; without keels; 1 -veined. Lower glume lateral veins absent. Lower glume apex acuminate. Upper glume lanceolate; 1.5 mm long; scarious; without keels; 1 -veined. Upper glume lateral veins absent. Upper glume apex acuminate.
- Florets
- Fertile lemma ovate; 6 mm long; chartaceous; without keel; 9 -veined. Lemma lateral veins with cross-veins. Lemma surface scabrous. Lemma margins ciliate. Lemma apex acuminate. Palea 1 length of lemma; 10 -veined. Palea keels ciliate; adorned above. Palea apex obtuse. Apical sterile florets resembling fertile though underdeveloped.
- Flowers
- Lodicules 3; ovate; 1.5 mm long; veined; ciliate. Anthers 6; 4 mm long. Stigmas 3.
- Fruits
- Caryopsis with adherent pericarp; apex unappendaged.
- Distribution
- Asia-temperate: Soviet far east and eastern Asia.
- Reference
- Bambuseae. Ind. Jap. Bam. 2001.
Native to:
Japan, Kuril Is., Sakhalin
Introduced into:
Great Britain
- Arundinaria albomarginata (Franch. & Sav.) Makino
- Bambusa albomarginata Makino
- Bambusa veitchii Carrière
- Sasa albomarginata (Franch. & Sav.) Makino & Shibata
- Sasa atagoensis Makino ex Koidz.
- Sasa auriculata Koidz.
- Sasa doiyoshiwoana Koidz.
- Sasa grandifolia Koidz.
- Sasa higoensis Nakai
- Sasa horribilis Koidz.
- Sasa kinkiensis Koidz.
- Sasa myojinensis Koidz.
- Sasa notopeninsulae Koidz.
- Sasa persimilis Koidz. & Araki
- Sasa rigescens Koidz.
- Sasa sachalinensis Makino & Nakai
- Sasa sadaoi Nakai
- Sasa sandangorgiana Koidz.
- Sasa sasagaminensis Koidz.
- Sasa sayekiensis Koidz.
- Sasa tangoana Nakai
- Sasa tyuhgokensis Makino
- Sasa uii Nakai
- Sasa veitchii f. fuiri Muroi & H.Okamura
- Sasa veitchii f. minor (Makino) D.C.McClint.
- Sasa veitchii f. myojinensis (Koidz.) Sad.Suzuki
- Sasa veitchii var. tyuhgokensis (Makino) Sad.Suzuki
- Sasa yettiuensis Koidz.
Sasa veitchii (Carrière) Rehder appears in other Kew resources:
| Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gamble, J.S. [29837], United Kingdom | K000872654 | |||
| Gamble, J.S. [s.n.], United Kingdom | K000872655 | |||
| Gamble, J.S. [30350], United Kingdom | K000872656 | |||
| Gamble, J.S. [30350], United Kingdom | K000872657 | |||
| Gamble, J.S. [30981], United Kingdom | K000872658 | |||
| Gamble, J.S. [29807], United Kingdom | K000872659 | |||
| s.coll. [s.n.], United Kingdom | K000872651 | Unknown type material | ||
| s.coll. [s.n.], United Kingdom | K000872653 | |||
| s.coll. [s.n.], United Kingdom | K000872652 |
First published in J. Arnold Arbor. 1: 58 (1919)
Accepted by
- Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
- Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
- Ohrnberger, D. (1999). The bamboos of the world : annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa: 1-585. Elsevier, Amsterdam.
- Tutin, T.G. & al. (eds.) (1980). Flora Europaea 5: 1-452. Cambridge University Press.
Literature
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Parslow, R. & Bennallick, I. (2017). The new flora of the Isles of Scilly: 1-539. Parslow Press.
- Kharkevich, S.S., Probatova, N.S. & Novikov, V.S. (1985). Sosudistye rasteniia sovetskogo Dalnego Vostoka 1: 1-383. Izd-vo "Nauka," Leningradskoe otd-nie, Leningrad.
- Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
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