The Morphology, Anatomy, Biology And Classification Of PeninsularMalaysia Bamboos. Author : K. M. Wong Classes : Plants Price : US$ 40.00 Availability : Hard Cover Pages : 189 Dimensions : 255. 175. 17 mm ISBN : 983-99033-0-6 Code : 99030

INTRODUCTION The Morphology, Anatomy, Biology and Classification of Peninsular Malaysian Bamboos is an account of the variation in structure and habits of bamboos which bear on their botanical classification, Reviews of the general classification and morphology of bambusoid grasses, flowering phenomena among woody bamboos and evolutionary perspectives appear in the first part of the book. The account provides detailed discussions on the morphology and growth architecture of bamboos in the Asiatic and tropical genera Bambusa, Chimonobambusa, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Kinabaluchloa, Maclurochloa, Melocanna, Phyllostachys, Racemobambos, Schizostachyum, Soejatmia and Thyrsostachys, and summaries of the vegetative reproduction, invasive behaviour and flowering habits of some of these bamboos. The contribution of recent evidence from morphology and anatomy towards the subtribal and generic classification of bamboos is also reviewed. AUTHOR K.M. WONG Ph.D., heads the Botany section and Herbarium at the Sabah Forestry Department's Forest Research Centre, Sepilok, Sandakan. He continues his studies of tropical bamboos since completing a revision of the Malayan arborescent representatives of the taxonomically difficult Rubiaceae. He has been a Forest Botanist first with the Forest Research Institute at Kepong, Malaysia, and then in Brunei, and is also interested in plant architecture and successional ecology. He is the author of several books on Malaysian and Bornean plants and editor of the Sabah Forestry Department's botanical series "Sandakania" and the Sabah Society Journal. At present, he helps coordinate research on the tree flora of Sabah and Sarawak, and specialises in the Goodeniaceae, Hyperiaceae, Loganiaceae and Rubiaceae of Borneo.