Chimonocalamus
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Chimonocalamus is a genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...

 of bamboo
Bamboo
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. Some of the species are aromatic and grown as ornamental plant
Ornamental plant
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Synonymy

The genus is also known as Sinarundinaria Nakai
Takenoshin Nakai
was a Japanese botanist.-External links:* * * by Yong Shik Kim and Mike Maunder from CURTIS'S Botanical Magazine, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. Vol. 15: 141-146, 1998....

, a genus that includes a the species Sinarundinaria alpina
which used to be a species of Arundinaria
but is not nor has ever been a Chimonocalamus.
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