Schizostachyum

Schizostachyum
ʻOhe (Schizostachyum glaucifolium)
Scientific classification
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 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

  • 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.

References

  • Media related to Schizostachyum at Wikimedia Commons
  • Data related to Schizostachyum at Wikispecies