Chinese Bulletin of Botany ›› 2002, Vol. 19 ›› Issue (05): 614-619.

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A New Method for Making Culm-sheath Specimen of Bamboos

LAI Guang-Hui   

  1. (Guangde Institute of Forestry, Guangde 242200)
  • Received:2001-10-15 Revised:2002-11-14 Online:2002-09-20 Published:2002-09-20

Abstract: The culm_sheath as an important vegetative organ to identify bamboos is easily involute and cracked after its drop, so that most culm_sheath specimens made by classic method are poor for the identifaction of species. A new method for making culm_sheath specimen, namely “ironing_method by electric iron", is here introd uced, and the effect on the characters of culm_sheath is discussed. As a result, it is better to keep the taxonomical characters by this method, and the quality of specimen is greatly improved.