Mullerochloa Explained

Mullerochloa is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.^[1] It just contains one species, Mullerochloa moreheadiana (F.M.Bailey) K.M.Wong ^[2]

It is native to Queensland in north-eastern Australia.

The grass forms clumps and grows up to 12m tall. Other sources say it can be up to two hundred feet (sixty meters) in length.^[3] Culms (aerial stem bearing the inflorescence), will get up to 4cm in diameter however they are thin walled. It has large leaves and doesn’t have basal branches.^[4]

The genus name of Mullerochloa is in honour of Lennox Muller, an Australian psychologist turned exotic plant farmer in Innisfail, Far North Queensland.^{[5] [6]} The Latin specific epithet of moreheadiana is in honour of Boyd Dunlop Morehead (1843–1905), an English-born Australian politician.^[7] Both genus and species were first described and published in Blumea Vol.50 on pages 434-435 in 2005.^[2]

Other sources

• H.T. Clifford, Austrobaileya Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), pp. 131-133, Bambusa moreheadiana F.M. Bailey (Magnoliophyta: Poaceae)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Mullerochloa K.M.Wong Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 18 May 2021 . en.
2. Web site: Mullerochloa moreheadiana (F.M.Bailey) K.M.Wong Plants of the World Online Kew Science . Plants of the World Online . 30 October 2021 . en.
3. Franklin . Donald C. . 2008 . Taxonomic Interpretation of Australian Native Bamboos . 12 . 2 . 183 .
4. Web site: Bamboo plants of Australia . Native species explained . Aussie Bamboo . 30 October 2021 . en-AU . 14 January 2020.
5. Web site: Currie Connect' ' University of Western Australia . Currie Connect . 29 May 2022 . en.
6. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Verzeichnis eponymischer Pflanzennamen – Erweiterte Edition . Index of Eponymic Plant Names – Extended Edition . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2018 . 978-3-946292-26-5 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2018 . 187926901 . 1 January 2021.
7. Web site: Bambusa moreheadiana . keys.lucidcentral.org . 30 October 2021.