Taquara I.L.C.Oliveira & R.P.Oliveira

Lopes-Neto, Raimundo Balieiro & Viana, Pedro Lage, 2022, Flora of the Serra do Cachimbo (Eastern Amazon, Brazil): Bambusoideae (Poaceae), including the description of two new species, Phytotaxa 550 (2), pp. 99-129 : 125

Taquara I.L.C.Oliveira & R.P.Oliveira in Oliveira et al. (2020: 78).

TYPE:— Taquara micrantha (Kunth in Humboldt et al. 1815: 160) I.L.C.Oliveira & R.P.Oliveira in Oliveira et al. (2020: 78).

Plants cespitose. Culms homomorphic, erect, sometimes leaning on surrounding vegetation, 2–3 m tall, infra- and supranodal bands of trichomes absent. Profusely branched at the upper nodes, without thorns. Leaves not differentiated into culm leaves and foliage leaves. Leaf sheaths without fimbriae at the apex, translucent swelling absent, outer ligule absent, blades oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, midnerve not prominent. Synflorescences terminal, open panicles, the lower branches with male spikelets and the upper branches with female spikelets; spikelets with filiform pedicels, solitary and unisexual, glumes 2 (female spikelets) or absent (male spikelets), anthecium foveolate (with small pits) over the entire surface. Fruit a basic caryopsis, hilum linear, ½–¾ the length of caryopsis.

Taquara is an herbaceous bamboo genus with erect to scandent culms, 2–3 m tall, leaves oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate and synflorescences a terminal panicle, bearing male and female spikelets on the same synflorescence, with female spikelets 3–4 mm long, the pedicels filiform and anthecium foveolate (with small pits) over the entire surface ( Oliveira et al. 2020a). The genus includes two species, one restricted to the Araracuara region in Colombia and the other widely distributed in the Neotropics, from eastern Colombia and Venezuela to the eastern Andes and Atlantic coast of Brazil (Oliveira & Oliveira 2020, Oliveira et al. 2020a). In the Serra do Cachimbo, it is represented by one species.