New records of mass seeding Cephalostachyum latifolium Munro (Poaceae) along the mid-elevation broadleaved forest of Sarpang district, Bhutan

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Jigme Tenzin
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3934-333X
Sangay Nidup
Dago Dorji
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4877-6516

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Mass seeding of Cephalostachyum latifolium under Sarpang district, Bhutan. However, Bhutan till dates has recorded only two Cephalostachyum species (C.Meanwhile, Meanwhile, recent record of gregarious and mass seeding of Cephalostachyum latifolium bamboo species from the mid-elevation broadleaved forest of Sarpang district in Bhutan has added another new records to bamboo science in 2017.C. In Bhutan, gregarious flowering of C. Therefore, gregarious and mass seeding has immense social, economic and ecological implications to the communities.

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