Merostachys sp.
name: label: Biogeographical Region
content: 42 - Malesia
label: Collector
content: Paul M. Taylor
notes: label: Notes
content: The only information on the specimen is a small damaged tag which says "Tbl: o gohoboro" and "180[damaged]." The other items in the drawer, as well as the drawer under it, are all labelled similarly. One of them is labelled as Taylor. "Tbl" most likely refers to Tobelo or Tobelorese, a language/region in Indonesia. Page 86 of Paul Michael Taylor's book "A Folk Biology of the Tobelo People," a publication of the Smithsonian Institution, lists "Tbl" as an abbreviation for "Tobelo (=Tobelorese)." Therefore, Taylor was listed as the collector and the locality as Indonesia. Some sources state"o gohoboro" as a synonym for Schizostachyum. However, in A Folk Biology of the Tobelo people, Taylor lists it as an undetermined bamboo (pg. 150). Therefore, the identification has been left as indet. sp, but it is possible that this is Schizostachyum.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 4 Dec 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Indonesia, Asia-Tropical
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content: Botany
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content: Flowering plants and ferns
publisher: label: Published Name
content: Merostachys sp.
label: Published Name
content: Schizostachyum sp.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Botany Dept.
identifier: label: Barcode
content: 01860012
label: Other Numbers
content: Case:Drawer : 2705002
taxonomicName: label: Taxonomy
content: Plantae Monocotyledonae Poales Poaceae Bambusoideae