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Olmeca fulgor

Aulonemia fulgor is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is a bamboo native to Veracruz and Oaxaca states in southern Mexico. It is found mainly in North America.

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Olmeca fulgor
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Embryophytes
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Spermatophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Genus: Olmeca
Species:
O. fulgor
Binomial name
Olmeca fulgor
(Soderstr.) Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés
Synonyms1
  • Aulonemia fulgor Soderstr.
  • Guadua fulgor (Soderstr.) D.L.Fu

Aulonemia fulgor is a species of flowering plant in the family Poaceae. It is a bamboo native to Veracruz and Oaxaca states in southern Mexico.123 It is found mainly in North America.4

The species was first described as Aulonemia fuller by Thomas Robert Soderstrom in 1988.5 In 2011 Eduardo Ruiz-Sanchez, Victoria Sosa, and M.Teresa Mejía-Saulés placed the species in genus Olmeca as O. fulgor.1

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References

  1. "Olmeca fulgor (Soderstr.) Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés". Plants of the World Online. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 27 February 2026.
  2. Quattrocchi, Umberto (2006-04-26). CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set. CRC Press. ISBN 9781420003222.
  3. Ohrnberger, D. (1999-01-29). The Bamboos of the World: Annotated Nomenclature and Literature of the Species and the Higher and Lower Taxa. Elsevier. ISBN 9780080542386.
  4. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium. Smithsonian Institution Press. 2000.
  5. Soderstrom, Thomas R. (1988). "Aulonemia fulgor (Poaceae: Bambusoideae), a New Species from Mexico". Brittonia. 40 (1): 22–31. doi:10.2307/2806870. JSTOR 2806870. S2CID 8419355.