Bambusa

Bambusa
Bambusa oldhamii
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae (unranked): Angiosperms (unranked): Monocots (unranked): Commelinids Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Bambusoideae Supertribe: Bambusodae Tribe: Bambuseae Subtribe: Bambusinae Genus: Bambusa Schreb.
Species
Bambusa arnhemica Bambusa arundinacea- Giant Thorny Bambusa balcooa Bambusa bambos - aka arundinacea giant thorny bamboo Bambusa basihirsuta Bambusa beecheyana - Beechey bamboo; source of commercial bamboo sprouts in s. China Bambusa blumeana Bambusa boniopsis Bambusa burmanica Bambusa chungii Bambusa emeiensis Bambusa forbesii - iron range bamboo Bambusa glaucophylla - Malay dwarf Bambusa lako - Timor black Bambusa longispiculata -40' Burma Bambusa multiplex - hedge bamboo Bambusa pachinensis Bambusa sinospinosa - Chinese thorny bamboo Bambusa tulda Bambusa ventricosa - Buddha bamboo Bambusa vulgaris etc.

Bambusa is a large genus (about 37 species) of clumping bamboos.^[1] These species are usually giant ones, with numerous branches at a node and one or two much larger than the rest. They are found in tropical and subtropical areas of Asia, especially in the monsoon and wet Tropics.

Synonymy

This genus has been brought into synonymy with Dendrocalamopsis (L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung) Keng.f..

Genera

The following bamboo genera have (at some time or other) been included in Bambusa:

• Arundarbor Kuntze
• Bonia Balansa
• Eremocaulon Soderstrom & Londoño (including Criciuma Soderstrom & Londoño)
• Guadua Kunth
• Holttumochloa K.M.Wong
• Ischurochloa Büse
• Kinabaluchloa K.M.Wong
• Leleba Nakai
• Lingnania McClure
• Maclurochloa K.M.Wong
• Mullerochloa K.M.Wong
• Neololeba Widjaja
• Soejatmia K.M.Wong
• Tetragonocalamus Nakai
• Bambusae Caulis - (syn. Phyllostachysis Caulis; Bambusa tuldoides) Zhu ru in Chinese

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