The Floristic Study Of Bamboo In The Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park North Sulawesi

Abstract

Bamboo is classified as a group of flowering plant belonging to the family Poaceae, subfamily Bambusoideae (Soderstorm and Ellis, 1987). Almost all bamboos in Indonesia are characterized by woody culms with complex branching and rhizome systems. They commonly grow in the open areas, disturbed forests, or well drainage soils. Also they are typically found in sloping areas or river banks. In general, bamboos are well distributed from lowland to the highland (up to 4000 m above sea level). There are probably 1250 bamboo species in the world. About 20 % of them grow in Southeast Asia (Dransfield & Widjaja, 1995). Indonesia possesses 125 species which are widely dispersed and wild (Widjaja, 1995). There are 14 bamboo species in North Sulawesi (Widjaja, 1992). The objectives of this research are to make an inventory and an identification key by using morphological characters of bamboo genera and species in the Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park North Sulawesi. The research conducted in the Herbarium Bogoriense, Bogor Botanical Garden, and Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park, from September 1995 to September 1996. Explorative and descriptive methods are used to gain the data. The results are indicated that in Bogani Nani Wartabone National Park there are two new species of Dinochloa, Dinochloa barbata, D. pubiramea, two species of Schizostachyum, Neololeba atra, Gigantochloa atter, and Bambusa vulgaris…dst