Out of Africa? New bamboo genera, mountain gorillas, and the origins of China's bamboos

African mountain bamboos are something of a mystery, as nearly all bamboos are found in Asia or South America. Hidden away up mountains in the tropics where they provide food for gorillas, just as China's bamboos provide food for the Giant Panda, there are apparently only two species, and they had not been examined in very great detail, except by the gorillas, Fig. 1.

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