BANGLADESH JOURNAL OF FOREST SCIENCE
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
A Half-yearly Peer Reviewed Journal of Bangladesh Forest Research Institute
A study of anatomical structures of leaf surface, culm surface and internodal structure of Melocalamus compactiflorus (Kurz) Benth was made. The taxonomic value ofthe anatomical characters of the species has been discussed. Leaf surface anatomy agrees well with that studied by
Metcalf (1960). On the basis of vascular bundle type, Melocalamus can be placed in the group BD of the proposed system of Grosser and Liese (1973). Comparative studies with allied genera suggest that Melocalamus is related to Melocanna and Dinochloa as proposed by S. Dransfield (1981 ).
