Bamboos at TBGRI

Bamboos at TBGRI
Koshy, K.C.2010

Tuesday 8 January 2013

Review by Marco Roos in Blumea (57): 195.2012


Blumea (57): 195. 2012

Koshy KC. 2010. Bamboos at TBGRI. Tropical Botanic Garden 
and Research Institute, Kerala, India. 104 pp. ISBN: 978-819-
2009-80-3 (Pb). Price: USD 30.

Bamboos are a notorious group for herbarium taxonomists 
because of their size. The need for living material to map the 
diversity and to be able to make sound species hypotheses, 
usually hampers progress in revision work. It is most helpful if 
botanic gardens built up well-documented collections of living 
plants accompanied by voucher specimens. This very useful 
book provides an excellent example of such an initiative. Apart 
from giving a detailed overview of the specimens and taxa 
present, it also goes into general notions how this collection 
was built up. I think this will be a valuable overview for people 
interested in this impressive group of plants.

Marco Roos

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