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L. Watson, T.D. Macfarlane, and M.J. Dallwitz

### Mullerochloa K.M. Wong

~ Bambusa moreheadiana F.M. Bailey

Habit, vegetative morphology. Perennial; caespitose. Culms woody and persistent; cylindrical (the internodes 20–30 cm long); not twining, but scandent (500–700 cm long); branched above. Primary branches 4–10. The branching dendroid. Culm nodes inflated. Culm leaf sheaths present; deciduous. Culm leaves with conspicuous blades. Culm leaf blades linear. Culm internodes solid to hollow (the lumen if present small). Rhizomes short, pachymorph. Leaves not basally aggregated; auriculate. Leaf blades lanceolate (acuminate, the margins scabrous); broad; 17–30 cm long, 15–50 mm wide; pseudopetiolate; with 12–14 secondary veins. Ligule an unfringed membrane; 2–3 mm long. Contra-ligule present.

Reproductive organization. Plants bisexual, all with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite florets. The spikelets hermaphrodite.

Inflorescence. Inflorescence determinate; with pseudospikelets; comprising untidy tufts of nodal clusters; a complex of ‘partial inflorescences’ and intervening foliar organs (20–30 cm long).

Female-fertile spikelets. Spikelets unconventional; 5–7 mm long; ovate; compressed laterally to not noticeably compressed (subterete); disarticulating above the glumes; disarticulating between the florets. Rachilla prolonged beyond the uppermost female-fertile floret; the rachilla extension with incomplete florets.

Glumes two; more or less equal; shorter than the spikelets; blunt, not pointed; awnless; non-carinate; about 3 mm long, ovate, similar. Spikelets with incomplete florets. The incomplete florets distal to the female-fertile florets. The distal incomplete florets merely underdeveloped; awnless. Spikelets without proximal incomplete florets.

Female-fertile florets 5–7. Lemmas ovate; not becoming indurated; entire; awnless; non-carinate; 7 nerved. Palea present; relatively long (exceeding ther lemma). Lodicules present; 3; membranous. Stamens 6; monadelphous. Ovary apically glabrous; without a conspicuous apical appendage.

Fruit, embryo and seedling. Pericarp fused.

Classification. Watson & Dallwitz (1994): genus not recognised. Soreng et al. (2015): Bambusoideae; Bambusodae; Bambuseae; Bambusinae. 1 species (M. moreheadiana).

Distribution, phytogeography, ecology. North Queensland, Australia.

References, etc. Morphological/taxonomic: Clayton et al. (2016), Grassbase. See Wong, K.M. (2005). Mullerochloa, a New Genus of Bamboo (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) from North-East Australia and notes on the circumscription of Bambusa. Blumea 50, 425–441.

Special comments. Anatomical data wanting.

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Cite this publication as: ‘Watson, L., Macfarlane, T.D., and Dallwitz, M.J. 1992 onwards. The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references. Version: 15th June 2025. delta-intkey.com’.

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