Kuruna walkeriana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poales
Classification System: APG IV Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Plantae Cladus: Angiosperms Cladus: Monocots Cladus: Commelinids Ordo: Poales

Familia: Poaceae
Subfamilia: Bambusoideae
Tribus: Arundinarieae
Subtribus: Thamnocalaminae
Genus: Kuruna
Species: Kuruna walkeriana

Name

Kuruna walkeriana (Munro) Attigala, Kaththr. & L.G.Clark, Phytotaxa 174: 200. (2014)

Synonyms

• Basionym
  • Arundinaria walkeriana Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 21 (1868).
• Homotypic
  • Indocalamus walkerianus (Munro) Nakai, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 148 (1925).
  • Sinarundinaria walkeriana (Munro) C.S.Chao & Renvoize, Kew Bull. 44: 354 (1989).
  • Yushania walkeriana (Munro) R.B.Majumdar in S.Karthikeyan & al., Fl. Ind. Enum. - Monocot.: 283 (1989).
• Heterotypic
  • Arundinaria wightiana Thwaites, Enum. Pl. Zeyl.: 444 (1864), nom. illeg.

Distribution

Native distribution areas:
Continental: Asia-Temperate Regional: Indian subcontinent S. India, C. Sri Lanka References: Brummitt, R.K. 2001. TDWG – World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, 2nd Edition

References

Primary references

• Attigala, L., Kathriarachchi, H.-S. & Clark, L.G. 2014. A new genus and a major temperate bamboo lineage of the Arundinarieae (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from Sri Lanka based on a multi-locus plastid phylogeny. Phytotaxa 174(4): 187–205. DOI: 10.11646%2Fphytotaxa.174.4.1 Reference page. : 200

Links

• Govaerts, R. et al. 2022. Kuruna walkeriana in Kew Science Plants of the World Online. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published online. Accessed: 2022 August 21. Reference page. 
• Hassler, M. 2022. Kuruna walkeriana. World Plants: Synonymic Checklists of the Vascular Plants of the World In: Roskovh, Y., Abucay, L., Orrell, T., Nicolson, D., Bailly, N., Kirk, P., Bourgoin, T., DeWalt, R.E., Decock, W., De Wever, A., Nieukerken, E. van, Zarucchi, J. & Penev, L., eds. 2022. Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life. Published online. Accessed: 2022 August 21. Reference page. 
• Tropicos.org 2022. Kuruna walkeriana. Missouri Botanical Garden. Published online. Accessed: 21 August 2022.
• International Plant Names Index. 2022. Kuruna walkeriana. Published online. Accessed: August 21 2022.

Vernacular names

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