Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR) Bambusa spp. (Poaceae)
herbarium voucher specimen from Tinian Island
(Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region)


Presented here is information about a herbarium specimen (voucher) of Bambusa spp. (Poaceae) from Tinian Island (Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region). For further information, contact webmaster@hear.org.


Voucher number: BISH122281
Herbarium (or collector): Bernice P. Bishop Museum
Taxon name on voucher: Bambusa blumeana Schult.
Represents which PIER taxon: Bambusa spp. (Poaceae)
Local name: n/a
Info current as of: 01 October 2003
PIER comments: n/a
Local name language: n/a
Deteriminer: F.A.McClure
Determination date: n/a
Determination institution: Bernice P. Bishop Museum (BISH)
Region: Micronesia
Country: Mariana Islands
Island group: n/a
Island: Tinian
State/province: n/a
Town/city: n/a
Locality: Lake Hagoya, northern end of island.
PIER location: Tinian Island (Northern Mariana Islands/Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (US)/Pacific region)
Habitat: Abandoned cultivated ground and thickets near a small slightly brackish pond, with nearby rocky shore. Planted.
Elevation (lo/hi): 1-10 m
Coordinates: n/a
LAT/LON method: n/a
PLDesc: Clumps with culms crowded rather closely, dark green, up to 6 m. tall, lower branches very spiny, forming a tangle sheathy from 4th to 5th nodes.
Collector: Fosberg, F.R.
Collection team: n/a
CollNumber: 24805
Collection date(s): 8-10.vi.1946
Voucher comment: Sheet 1 of 2. See sheet #122280.

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