''Mullerochloa'' is a genus of

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s in the grass family

Poaceae Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivate ...

, with affinities to bamboos. It contains just one species, ''Mullerochloa moreheadiana'', which is native to northeastern

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, Australia. It was originally described (as ''Bambusa moreheadiana'') by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1889. The grass forms clumps and grows up to 12m (forty feet) tall. Other sources say it can be up to two hundred feet (sixty meters) in length. The genus name of ''Mullerochloa'' is in honour of Lennox Muller, an Australian psychologist turned exotic plant farmer in Innisfail, Far North Queensland. The Latin

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of ''moreheadiana'' is in honour of Boyd Dunlop Morehead (1843–1905), an English-born Australian politician.

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Other sources

* H.T. Clifford, Austrobaileya Vol. 4, No. 1 (1993), pp. 131-133, ''Bambusa moreheadiana'' F.M. Bailey (Magnoliophyta: Poaceae) {{Taxonbar, from1=Q19820313, from2=Q19820323 Bambusoideae Bambusoideae genera Plants described in 2005 Flora of Queensland Monotypic Poaceae genera