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]
Schizostachyum | |
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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] | |
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Description
editThe 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
editThe following are included in Plants of the World Online:[6][1]
- Schizostachyum aciculare - Borneo, Malaysia, Indochina
- Schizostachyum aequiramosum - Java
- Schizostachyum alopecurus - New Guinea
- Schizostachyum andamanicum - Andaman Islands
- Schizostachyum arunachalensis - Arunachal Pradesh
- Schizostachyum atrocingulare - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum auriculatum - Guangxi
- Schizostachyum bamban - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum beddomei - India
- Schizostachyum blumei Nees - from Vietnam to Java - type species
- Schizostachyum brachycladum - from Vietnam to Java
- Schizostachyum brachythyrsus - New Guinea
- Schizostachyum castaneum - Bali
- Schizostachyum caudatum - Java, Sumatra
- Schizostachyum chinense - Yunnan
- Schizostachyum copelandii - New Guinea
- Schizostachyum coradatum - Jiangxi
- Schizostachyum cornutum - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum curranii - Philippines
- Schizostachyum cuspidatum - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum diaoluoshanense - Hainan
- Schizostachyum distans - Myanmar
- Schizostachyum dullooa - Eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Schizostachyum dumetorum - Guangdong, Jiangxi
- Schizostachyum flexuosum - Borneo
- Schizostachyum funghomii - Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam; naturalized in Honduras, Puerto Rico
- Schizostachyum glaucifolium - Marquesas
- Schizostachyum glaucocladum - Kalimantan
- Schizostachyum gracile - Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum grande - Laos, Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum griffithii - Assam, Myanmar
- Schizostachyum hainanense - Hainan, Vietnam
- Schizostachyum hantu - Sarawak
- Schizostachyum insulare - Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum iraten - Java
- Schizostachyum jaculans - Hainan, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum kalpongianum - Andaman Islands
- Schizostachyum khoonmengii - Brunei
- Schizostachyum kuisingii K.M.Wong - Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum langbianense V.T.Tran, N.H.Xia & H.N.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Schizostachyum latifolium - Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum lengguanii - Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum lima - Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
- Schizostachyum lumampao - Philippines
- Schizostachyum lutescens - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum mampouw - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum mannii - Assam
- Schizostachyum nghianum N.H.Xia & V.T.Tran
- Schizostachyum ninhthuanense N.H.Xia, V.T.Tran & H.N.Nguyen - Vietnam
- Schizostachyum pergracile (Munro) R.B.Majumdar
- Schizostachyum perrieri - Madagascar
- Schizostachyum pilosum - Sabah
- Schizostachyum pingbianense - Yunnan
- Schizostachyum pleianthemum - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum pseudolima - Hainan, Vietnam
- Schizostachyum rogersii - Myanmar, Andaman Islands
- Schizostachyum sanguineum - Yunnan
- Schizostachyum seshagirianum - Arunachal Pradesh
- Schizostachyum silicatum - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum terminale - Peninsular Malaysia
- Schizostachyum tessellatum - Solomon Islands
- Schizostachyum textorium - Philippines
- Schizostachyum undulatum - Sumatra
- Schizostachyum wanshishanense - Fujian
- Schizostachyum warburgii - Maluku
- Schizostachyum whitei - New Guinea
- Schizostachyum yalyense - Vietnam
- Schizostachyum zollingeri - from Vietnam to Java
- 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 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 helferi - Neohouzeaua helferi
- 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
edit- ^ a b c d Plants of the World Online: Schizostachyum Nees (retrieved 14 March 2021)
- ^ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 535 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Schizostachyum Nees
- ^ a b Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 50 岭南竹属 si lao zhu shu Schizostachyum Nees in Martius et al.
- ^ Soreng, R. J. 2000. Schizostachyum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 112
- ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
External links
edit- Media related to Schizostachyum at Wikimedia Commons
- Data related to Schizostachyum at Wikispecies