The taxonomy of bamboos offers more
problems to the taxonomists than that of
any other group of flowering plants.
Unlike other perennial flowering plants many
bamboos flower once in their life and die.
Because of the non-availability of flowering
materials, identification based on anatomical
structure is often of particular
interest.
Except the leaf anatomy by Metcalf
(1960), no anatomy of M. conip act iflor us
has yet been done. Ghosh and Negi (1960)
studied culm epidermis of six Indian
bamboos. Pattanath and Ramesh Rao (1969)
studied the culm epidermis and internodal