Schizostachyum Explained
Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo.[1] [2] They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific.[3] A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.[4]
Description
The genus name comes from Greek ("cleft") and ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets.
These are clumping, sometimes climbing woody bamboos, with terete culm-internodes and short, thick (pachymorph), perennial rhizomes.
Species
The following are included in Plants of the World Online:[5] [6]
- formerly included[3] see Bambusa Cephalostachyum Cyrtochloa Dendrocalamus Dinochloa Eremocaulon Gigantochloa Nastus Neohouzeaua Pseudostachyum Pseudoxytenanthera Sirochloa Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.
Notes and References
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28854216#page/549/mode/1up Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 535
- http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40032029 Tropicos, Schizostachyum Nees
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=129567 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 50 岭南竹属 si lao zhu shu Schizostachyum Nees in Martius et al.
- https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/384083#page/112/mode/1up Soreng, R. J. 2000. Schizostachyum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 112
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do;jsessionid=38129EC371AED6EE0E51AFD85E623C40?name_id=441459 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327061-2 Plants of the World Online: Schizostachyum Nees (retrieved 14 March 2021)