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|accepted_name=Bambusa
|accepted_authority=Schreb.
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|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae;Poaceae tribe Bambuseae;Bambusa
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Bambuseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Bambusa]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 21
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism growth form;clump prominence;clump architecture or fragility"><b>Plants </b>usually arborescent, in well defined or rather loose clumps;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="neck height or length or size">rhizomes pachymorphic, with short necks.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="culm height;culm height;culm thickness;culm thickness;culm texture;culm duration;culm growth form"><b>Culms </b>0.5-30 (35) m tall, 0.5-18 (20) cm thick, woody, perennial, usually self-supporting;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="node shape">nodes not swollen;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="supranodal ridge prominence">supranodal ridges obscure;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="internode shape;internode position relational;wax coloration">internodes terete, usually thinly covered initially with light-colored wax.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="primary central branch prominence;primary central branch prominence;primary central branch prominence;primary central branch prominence"><b>Branch </b>complements usually with a dominant primary central branch and 2 smaller codominant lateral branches, usually similar at all nodes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="bud-scale shape;bud-scale size or width">bud-scales 2-keeled, thickened, initially closed at the back and front;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="branch position;lower node architecture or shape">branches all subtended by bracts, higher order branchlets at the lower nodes sometimes thornlike.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="culm leaf duration;culm leaf texture;culm leaf pubescence;hair height or length or size;hair fragility"><b>Culm </b>leaves usually promptly deciduous, initially lightly waxy, sometimes with short, stiff hairs, subsequently losing the wax and becoming glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="auricle development">auricles usually well developed;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="fimbria presence">fimbriae usually present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="blade shape;blade orientation">blades triangular to broadly triangular, usually erect.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="sheath duration;sheath duration"><b>Foliage </b>leaves: sheaths usually deciduous from the lower nodes of the branches, persistent at the distal nodes;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="blade length;blade width;blade shape;blade architecture">blades to 30 cm long, to 6 cm wide, not distinctly cross veined.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s15" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence architecture or shape;inflorescence architecture"><b>Inflorescences </b>usually spicate, rarely capitate, bracteate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s16" data-properties="prophyll shape;prophyll size or width">prophylls 2-keeled, narrow.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s17" data-properties="floret quantity"><b>Pseudospikelets </b>1-5 cm, with 3-12 florets;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s18" data-properties="pseudospikelet some measurement">disarticulation above the glumes and below the florets, rapid;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s19" data-properties="rachilla internode length or size">rachilla internodes usually long.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s20" data-properties="glume quantity;bud position"><b>Glumes </b>several, subtending the buds;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s21" data-properties="lemma shape;lemma shape">lemmas narrowly ovate, acute, unawned;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s22" data-properties="palea shape;palea architecture">paleas not exceeding the lemmas, 2-keeled, not winged;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s23" data-properties="anther quantity">anthers 6;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s24" data-properties="ovary shape">ovaries usually suboblong;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s25" data-properties="branch atypical quantity;branch quantity;branch shape">styles short, with (2) 3-4 plumose branches.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s26" data-properties="style height or length or size;2n chromosome quantity">2n = 56-72.</span><!--

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|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);S.C.;Fla.
|discussion=<p>Bambusa is a tropical and subtropical genus of 75-100+ species. It is native to southern and southeastern Asia, but is widely cultivated and naturalized throughout the tropics. Bambusa vulgaris and B. multiplex grow widely in Florida and Texas, having spread to some extent after being planted as ornamentals. Other species are known only in cultivation. The American Bamboo Society lists over 40 species as being commercially available in North America in 2005. This treatment includes a few of the more commonly cultivated species.</p>
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|references={{Treatment/Reference
|id=but1985a
|text=But, P.P.-H., L.-C. Chia, H.-L.F., and S.-Y. Hu. 1985. Hong Kong Bamboos. Urban Council, Hong Kong. 85 pp.
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|id=dransfield1995c
|text=Dransfield, S. and E.A. Widjaja (eds.). 1995. Plant Resources of South-East Asia [PROSEA] No. 7: Bamboos. Backhuys, Leiden, The Netherlands. 189 pp.
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|id=edelman1985a
|text=Edelman, D.K., T.R. Soderstrom, and G.E Deitzer. 1985. Bamboo introduction and research in Puerto Rico. J. Amer. Bamboo Soc. 6: 43-57
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=mcclure1955a
|text=McClure, F.A. 1955. Bambusa Schreb. Fieldiana, Bot. 242: 52-60
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=pohl1994a
|text=Pohl, R.W. 1994. Bambusa Schreber. Pp. 193-194 in G. Davidse, M. Sousa S., and A.O. Chater (eds.). Flora Mesoamericana, vol. 6: Alismataceae a Cyperaceae. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Biologia, Mexico, D.F., Mexico. 543 pp.
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=soderstrom1988a
|text=Soderstrom, T.R. and R.P. Ellis. 1988. The woody bamboos (Poaceae: Bambuseae) of Sri Lanka: A morphological-anatomical study. Smithsonian Contr. Bot. 72:1-75
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|id=stapleton1994a
|text=Stapleton, C.M.A. 1994. The bamboos of Nepal and Bhutan, Part I: Bambusa, Dendrocalamus, Melocanna, Cephalostacbyum, Teinostachyum, and Pseudostachyum (Gramineae: Poaceae, Bambusoideae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 51:1-32
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=stapleton2002a
|text=Stapleton, C.M.A. 2002. Bambusa ventricosa versus Bambusa tuldoides. Bamboo 23:17-18
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=widjaja1997a
|text=Widjaja, E.A. 1997. New taxa in Indonesian bamboos. Reinwardtia 11:57-152
}}{{Treatment/Reference
|id=wong1995a
|text=Wong, K.M. 1995. The Morphology, Anatomy, Biology, and Classification of Peninsular Malayan Bamboos. University of Malaya Botanical Monographs No. 1. University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 189 pp.
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|id=xia1997a
|text=Xia, N.H. and C.M.A. Stapleton. 1997. Typification of Bambusa bambos (Gramineae, Bambusoideae). Kew Bull. 52:693-698.
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==Key==
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{| class="wikitable fna-keytable"
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Branchlets of the lower branches recurved, hardened, thornlike
|[[Bambusa bambos|Bambusa bambos]]
|-id=key-0-1
|1
|Branchlets of the lower branches not thornlike.
|[[#key-0-2| > 2]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Culm sheath auricles well developed, to 5 cm long
|[[Bambusa vulgaris|Bambusa vulgaris]]
|-id=key-0-2
|2
|Culm sheath auricles absent or poorly developed.
|[[#key-0-3| > 3]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Culm internodes antrorsely hispid; culms 0.5-7 m tall, broadly arched above
|[[Bambusa multiplex|Bambusa multiplex]]
|-id=key-0-3
|3
|Culm internodes glabrous; culms 6-15 m tall, erect
|[[Bambusa oldhamii|Bambusa oldhamii]]
|}
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name=Bambusa
|author=Christopher M.A. Stapleton;
|authority=Schreb.
|rank=genus
|parent rank=tribe
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|distribution=Puerto Rico;Virgin Islands;Pacific Islands (Hawaii);S.C.;Fla.
|reference=but1985a;dransfield1995c;edelman1985a;mcclure1955a;pohl1994a;soderstrom1988a;stapleton1994a;stapleton2002a;widjaja1997a;wong1995a;xia1997a
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Bambuseae
|genus=Bambusa
|2n chromosome quantity=56;72
|anther quantity=6
|auricle development=developed
|blade architecture=veined
|blade length=0cm;30cm
|blade orientation=erect
|blade shape=cross;triangular;broadly triangular
|blade width=0cm;6cm
|branch atypical quantity=2
|branch position=higher
|branch quantity=3;4
|branch shape=plumose
|bud position=subtending
|bud-scale shape=2-keeled
|bud-scale size or width=thickened
|clump architecture or fragility=loose
|clump prominence=defined
|culm duration=perennial
|culm growth form=self-supporting
|culm height=0.5m;30m
|culm leaf duration=deciduous
|culm leaf pubescence=glabrous
|culm leaf texture=ceraceous
|culm texture=woody
|culm thickness=0.5cm;18cm
|fimbria presence=absent
|floret quantity=3;12
|glume quantity=several
|hair fragility=stiff
|hair height or length or size=short
|inflorescence architecture=bracteate;spicate
|inflorescence architecture or shape=capitate
|internode position relational=covered
|internode shape=terete
|lemma shape=acute;ovate
|lower node architecture or shape=thornlike
|neck height or length or size=short
|node shape=not swollen
|ovary shape=suboblong
|palea architecture=not winged
|palea shape=2-keeled
|primary central branch prominence=codominant;dominant;codominant;dominant
|prophyll shape=2-keeled
|prophyll size or width=narrow
|pseudospikelet some measurement=1cm;5cm
|rachilla internode length or size=long
|sheath duration=persistent;deciduous
|style height or length or size=short
|supranodal ridge prominence=obscure
|wax coloration=light-colored
|whole_organism growth form=plant
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