Melocanna baccifera

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Internal ID UUID6440314ad37c3514081303
Scientific name Melocanna baccifera
Authority Kurz
First published in Prelim. Rep. Forest Pegu , App. B: 94 (1875)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Bambusa baccifera Roxb. Hort. Bengal. 25. 1814
Beesha baccifera Kunth Syn. Pl. Aequin. 1: 253 (1822)
Beesha rheedei Kunth Révis. Gramin. 1: 141 (1829)
Melocanna bambusoides Trin. Neue Entd. 2: 43 (1821)
Nastus baccifer Roxb. ex Raspail Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 5: 442 (1825)

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Language Common/alternative name
English bangladesh bamboo
English berry bamboo
English pear bamboo
English terai bamboo
English west-bengal bamboo
Burmese တစ်ပင်တိုင်ဝါး
Chinese 梨果竹
Chinese 梨竹

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- Extinct
- Introduced
- Native
  • Asia-tropical
    • Indian Subcontinent
      • Assam
      • Bangladesh
      • East Himalaya
      • Nepal
    • Indo-China
      • Myanmar
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil Southeast
    • Caribbean
      • Jamaica
    • Western South America
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000879630
Tropicos 25518653
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:408271-1
The Plant List kew-424004
Open Tree Of Life 748923
NCBI Taxonomy 104005
IPNI 408271-1
iNaturalist 994401
GBIF 4115908
Freebase /m/0131xxpq
EOL 5843797
USDA GRIN 24042
Wikipedia Melocanna_baccifera

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Accession Assembly
Name Level Submitter Released Coverage Size
GCA_036346265.1 KIB_Mbac_1 Chromosome Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS 2024-02-02 104.49 1.00 Gb

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Gut microbiome composition reveals the distinctiveness between the Bengali people and the Indigenous ethnicities in Bangladesh Ahammad I, Bhattacharjee A, Chowdhury ZM, Rahman A, Hossain MU, Dewan G, Talukder S, Das KC, Keya CA, Salimullah M Commun Biol 25-Apr-2024
PMCID:PMC11045797
doi:10.1038/s42003-024-06191-9
PMID:38664512
Bamboo-Based Biochar: A Still Too Little-Studied Black Gold and Its Current Applications Alfei S, Pandoli OG J Xenobiot 20-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC10971603
doi:10.3390/jox14010026
PMID:38535501
Genome assemblies of 11 bamboo species highlight diversification induced by dynamic subgenome dominance Ma PF, Liu YL, Guo C, Jin G, Guo ZH, Mao L, Yang YZ, Niu LZ, Wang YJ, Clark LG, Kellogg EA, Xu ZC, Ye XY, Liu JX, Zhou MY, Luo Y, Yang Y, Soltis DE, Bennetzen JL, Soltis PS, Li DZ Nat Genet 15-Mar-2024
PMCID:PMC11018529
doi:10.1038/s41588-024-01683-0
PMID:38491323
Traditional utilization of bamboo in the Central Siwalik region, Nepal K. C. BM, Lamichhane J, Khanal SN, Gauchan DP PLoS One 30-Jan-2024
PMCID:PMC10826958
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0296886
PMID:38289942
A Novel Elucidation for Synflorescences of Chinese Bamboos Cai ZY, Xia NH Plants (Basel) 21-Dec-2023
PMCID:PMC10780399
doi:10.3390/plants13010029
PMID:38202336
Glomeromycota associations with bamboos (Bambusoideae) worldwide, a qualitative systematic review of a promising symbiosis Sánchez-Matiz JJ, Díaz-Ariza LA PeerJ 09-Nov-2023
PMCID:PMC10640841
doi:10.7717/peerj.16151
PMID:38025720
Characterization of Bamboo Culm as Potential Fibre for Composite Development Singh B, Dessalegn Y, Wakjira MW, Girma C, Rajhi AA, Duhduh AA Materials (Basel) 24-Jul-2023
PMCID:PMC10383272
doi:10.3390/ma16145196
PMID:37512468
Does monocarpic Phyllostachys nigra var. henonis regenerate after flowering in Japan? Insights from 3 years of observation after flowering Yamada T, Imada K, Aoyagi H, Nakabayashi M PLoS One 12-Jun-2023
PMCID:PMC10259779
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0287114
PMID:37307263
Potentiality of homestead agroforestry for achieving sustainable development goals: Bangladesh perspectives Ruba UB, Talucder MS Heliyon 13-Mar-2023
PMCID:PMC10036652
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14541
PMID:36967908
A review on pathogenicity of Aeromonas hydrophila and their mitigation through medicinal herbs in aquaculture Semwal A, Kumar A, Kumar N Heliyon 28-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10018484
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e14088
PMID:36938468
Wildlife habitat mapping using Sentinel-2 imagery of Mehao Wildlife Sanctuary, Arunachal Pradesh, India Ahmad A, Kanagaraj R, Gopi GV Heliyon 20-Feb-2023
PMCID:PMC10009465
doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e13799
PMID:36923836
Flower-fruit dynamics, visitor-predator patterns and chemical preferences in the tropical bamboo, Melocanna baccifera Koshy KC, Gopakumar B, Sebastian A, S. AN, Johnson AJ, Govindan B, Baby S PLoS One 16-Nov-2022
PMCID:PMC9668177
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0277341
PMID:36383625
Effect of Age and Height on the Chemical Properties of Muli Bamboo (Melocanna baccifera) Hossain MJ, Ghosh RK, Das AK, Maryana R, Nath SC, Islam MR, Sarker SC ACS Omega 22-Oct-2022
PMCID:PMC9631737
doi:10.1021/acsomega.2c05684
PMID:36340150
Complete Chloroplast Genome Features of Dendrocalamus farinosus and Its Comparison and Evolutionary Analysis with Other Bambusoideae Species Pei J, Wang Y, Zhuo J, Gao H, Vasupalli N, Hou D, Lin X Genes (Basel) 24-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9498922
doi:10.3390/genes13091519
PMID:36140690
Exploring the genetic makeup and population structure among Capsicum accessions for crop improvement and breeding curriculum insights Haq S, Dubey S, Dhingra P, Verma KS, Kumari D, Kothari SL, Kachhwaha S J Genet Eng Biotechnol 06-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9357239
doi:10.1186/s43141-022-00398-1
PMID:35932438

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