Mullerochloa

Mullerochloa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.[1] It just contains one species, Mullerochloa moreheadiana (F.M.Bailey) K.M.Wong [2]

Mullerochloa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Mullerochloa
K.M.Wong
Synonyms

Bambusa moreheadiana F.M.Bailey

It is native to Queensland in north-eastern Australia.[2]

The grass forms clumps and grows up to 12m tall. Other sources say it can be up to two hundred feet (sixty meters) in length.[3] Culms (aerial stem bearing the inflorescence), will get up to 4cm in diameter however they are thin walled. It has large leaves and doesn’t have basal branches.[4]

The genus name of Mullerochloa is in honour of Lennox Muller, an Australian psychologist turned exotic plant farmer in Innisfail, Far North Queensland.[5] [6] The Latin specific epithet of moreheadiana is in honour of Boyd Dunlop Morehead (1843–1905), an English-born Australian politician.[7] Both genus and species were first described and published in Blumea Vol.50 on pages 434-435 in 2005.[2]

References
  1. "Mullerochloa K.M.Wong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 18 May 2021.
  2. "Mullerochloa moreheadiana (F.M.Bailey) K.M.Wong | Plants of the World Online | Kew Science". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  3. Franklin, Donald C. (2008). "Taxonomic Interpretation of Australian Native Bamboos". 12 (2): 183. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. "Bamboo plants of Australia . Native species explained". Aussie Bamboo. 14 January 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  5. "Currie Connect' ' | University of Western Australia" (PDF). Currie Connect. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
  6. Burkhardt, Lotte (2018). Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition [Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2018. ISBN 978-3-946292-26-5. S2CID 187926901. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  7. "Bambusa moreheadiana". keys.lucidcentral.org. Retrieved 30 October 2021.

Other sources
  • H.T. Clifford, Austrobaileya Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), pp. 131-133, Bambusa moreheadiana F.M. Bailey (Magnoliophyta: Poaceae)
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