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Schizostachyum

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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]

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

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

  • Schizostachyum acutiflorum - Dinochloa acutiflora
  • Schizostachyum annulatum - Bambusa distegia
  • Schizostachyum apus - Gigantochloa apus
  • Schizostachyum arunachalensis - Stapletonia arunachalensis
  • Schizostachyum bitung - Dendrocalamus asper
  • Schizostachyum bosseri - Sirochloa parvifolia
  • Schizostachyum brassii - Bambusa riparia
  • Schizostachyum burmanicum - Cephalostachyum burmanicum
  • Schizostachyum capitatum - Eremocaulon capitatum
  • Schizostachyum chilianthum - Nastus elegantissimus
  • Schizostachyum dielsianum - Dinochloa dielsiana
  • Schizostachyum diffusum - Dinochloa diffusa
  • Schizostachyum dumosum - Dendrocalamus dumosus
  • Schizostachyum durie - Bambusa spinosa
  • Schizostachyum elegans - Dendrocalamus elegans
  • Schizostachyum elegantissimum - Nastus elegantissimus
  • Schizostachyum fenixii - Cyrtochloa fenixii
  • Schizostachyum flavescens - Cephalostachyum flavescens
  • Schizostachyum fuchsianum - Cephalostachyum latifolium
  • Schizostachyum hasskarlianum - Gigantochloa hasskarliana
  • Schizostachyum hindostanicum - Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyi
  • Schizostachyum kurzii - Pseudobambusa schizostachyoides
  • Schizostachyum leviculme - Pseudostachyum polymorphum
  • Schizostachyum loriforme - Dendrocalamus asper
  • Schizostachyum luzonicum - Cyrtochloa luzonica
  • Schizostachyum munroi - Cephalostachyum capitatum
  • Schizostachyum palawanense - Dinochloa palawanensis
  • Schizostachyum pallidum - Cephalostachyum pallidum
  • Schizostachyum parvifolium - Sirochloa parvifolia
  • Schizostachyum pergracile - Cephalostachyum pergracile
  • Schizostachyum polymorphum - Pseudostachyum polymorphum
  • Schizostachyum scandens - Cephalostachyum scandens
  • Schizostachyum serpentinum - Gigantochloa nigrociliata
  • Schizostachyum sharmae - Cephalostachyum latifolium
  • Schizostachyum strictum - Neohouzeaua stricta
  • Schizostachyum subcordatum - Dendrocalamus pendulus
  • Schizostachyum tavoyanum - Neohouzeaua tavoyana
  • Schizostachyum toppingii - Cyrtochloa toppingii
  • Schizostachyum virgatum - Cephalostachyum virgatum

Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.

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