Sasa (plant) explained

Sasa (Japanese: or), also called broad-leaf bamboo,^[1] is a genus of running bamboo.^[2] These species have at most one branch per node.

Selected species

• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata – northern bamboo, Jirisan bamboo
• Sasa kagamiana
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata – chishimazasa, Kuril bamboo, Korean bamboo
• Sasa nagimontana – muroi
• Sasa nipponica (Makino) Makino & Shibata
• Sasa oshidensis
• Sasa palmata (Burb.) E.G.Camus – broad-leaf bamboo
• Sasa senanensis
• Sasa tsuboiana
• Sasa veitchii – kumazasa

Fossil record

Fossil leaves of †Sasa kodorica are described from the Pliocene of Kodori Valley in Abkazia.^[3]

See also

• Pseudosasa – another genus of bamboo

Notes and References

1. Book: English Names for Korean Native Plants. Korea National Arboretum. 2015. 978-89-97450-98-5. Pocheon. 621–622. 24 December 2016. Korea Forest Service. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20170525105020/http://www.forest.go.kr/kna/special/download/English_Names_for_Korean_Native_Plants.pdf. 25 May 2017.
2. Web site: Kew. World Checklist.
3. Acta Palaeobotanica – Supplementum No. 3 – New Fossil Floras from Neogene Deposits in the Belchatow Lignite Mine by Grzegor Worobiec – Polish Academy of Sciences W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Krakow 2003