Biology:Schizostachyum

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Schizostachyum
Schizostachyum glaucifolium.jpg
ʻOhe (Schizostachyum glaucifolium)
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Melocanninae
Genus: Schizostachyum
Nees
Type species
Schizostachyum blumei
Synonyms[1]
  • Dendrochloa C.E.Parkinson
  • Teinostachyum Munro
Schizostachyum diffusum is a climbing bamboo that grows in clusters.

Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo.[2][3] They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific.[1][4] A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.[5]

Description

The genus name comes from Greek schistos ("cleft") and stachys ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets.

These are clumping, sometimes climbing woody bamboos, with terete culm-internodes and short, thick (pachymorph), perennial rhizomes.[1]

Species

The following are included in Plants of the World Online:[6][1]

formerly included[4]

see Bambusa Cephalostachyum Cyrtochloa Dendrocalamus Dinochloa Eremocaulon Gigantochloa Nastus Neohouzeaua Pseudostachyum Pseudoxytenanthera Sirochloa

Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.

References

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2381323 entry