Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda

Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Genus:	Chimonobambusa
Species:	C. tumidissinoda
Binomial name
	Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda; Ohrnb.

Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda (Chinese: 筇竹, commonly called walking stick bamboo) is a bamboo species, endemic to southwest Sichuan and northeast Yunnan, China, that has been used for walking sticks since the Han dynasty. Its culms are 2.5–6 meters in height and 1–3 cm in diameter, with large and greatly swollen disk-like nodes. Although it has been utilized since the Han dynasty (some 1200 years ago) it somehow escaped scientific description until 1980.^[1]

Synonyms

Chimonobambusa tumidinoda T.H.Wen
Qiongzhuea tumidinoda Hsueh & T.P.Yi
Qiongzhuea tumidissinoda (Ohrnb.) Hsueh f. & T.P.Yi

References

^ Martinelli, Janet, editor-in-chief (2005). Plant. New York: D K Publishing Inc. p. 276. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

Bamboos World Gen. Chimonobambusa 45 1990.
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[1] Martinelli, Janet, editor-in-chief (2005). Plant. New York: D K Publishing Inc. p. 276. {{cite book}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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