Grass morphology: Combinations of these distinctive features are to be found in different
bamboo
species (195e, g).
The non-woody and non-persistent underground parts of other members of the grass family often
show similar morphologies to those found in bamboos (181d), and both form comparable branching patterns
to the
the
rhizome systems of
gingers (311).
Fig. 195.
Bamboo rhizome
types.
Redrawn from McClure
(1966). a) pachymorph; b) pachymorph, long neck; c)
metamorph axis type 1 d) leptomorph; e) pachymorph, long neck and metamorph type 1 f) metamorph axis type 2; g) ;
;
leptomorph and pachymorph, short neck. Axb: Ln: long neck.
type
2. Sis:
M: metamorph type
1
.
axillary
Mm: metamorph
scale leaf scar. Sn: short neck.
bud.
bamboo rhizome
I
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