Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Bambusa Schreb.
BAMBOO
Classification
POALES
Bambusa
Citation
BAMBUSA Schreber, Gen. 236. 1789, nom. cons. vs. Bambos Retzius 1788.
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TYPE: Bambos arundinacea Retzius (Arundo bambos Linnaeus)
Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Bambusa multiplex HEDGE BAMBOO; SILVERSTRIPE BAMBOO Not Native
Bambusa vulgaris COMMON BAMBOO Not Native UPL (NWPL)
[Family identification key]
1.  Branchlets of the lower branches perpendicular and recurved, hardened, thorn-like, lacking foliage leaves (subg. Bambusa)
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1.  Branchlets of the lower branches bearing foliage leaves, not thornlike
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2.  Culm leaf blade adaxially sparsely puberulous to glabrous
2.  Culm leaf blade adaxially densely pubescent
3.  Culm leaf auricles absent or poorly developed
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3.  Culm leaf auricles well developed, 1.5-5 cm long, 0.4-1.5 cm wide
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4.  Culms 6-15 m tall, erect; culm internodes glabrous; culm leaf auricles small, rounded, ciliate; foliage leaf blades abaxially pubescent initially, becoming glabrous, adaxially glabrous (subg. Dendrocalamopsis)
4.  Culms 1-7 m tall, broadly arching distally; culm internodes antrorsely hispid; culm leaf auricles very small or inconspicuous; foliage leaf blades abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially glabrous
5.  Culm leaf sheath with stiff, dark brown hairs, the auricles subequal; foliage leaf blades glabrous on both surfaces
5.  Culm leaf sheath glabrous or with stiff, brown hairs, the auricles unequal, the larger one to 2 times as large as smaller one; foliage leaf blades abaxially densely pubescent, adaxially glabrous or sparsely pilose near base
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6.  Culm leaf sheath glabrous or with stiff, brown hairs, larger auricle narrowly oblong to lanceolate, ca. 1.5 cm long, 0.4-0.5 cm wide
6.  Culm leaf sheath glabrous, larger auricle ovate to ovate-elliptic, ca. 2.5 cm long, 1-1.4 cm wide
Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Arundarbor Arundarbor Kuntze, Revis. Gen. Pl. 2: 760. 1891. TYPE: = Bambusa Schreber 1798.
Bambos Bambos Retzius, Observ. Bot. 5: 24. 1788, nom. rej. vs. Bambusa Schreber 1789. TYPE: Bambos arundinacea Retzius (Arundo bambos Linnaeus) = Bambusa Schreber 1789.
Bonia Bonia Balansa, J. Bot. (Morot) 4: 29. 1890. TYPE: Bonia tonkinensis Balansa
Dendrocalamopsis Dendrocalamopsis (L. C. Chia & H. L. Fung) Keng f., J. Bamboo Res. 2: 11. 1983. BASIONYM: Bambusa Schreber, subg. Dendrocalamopsis L. C. Chia & H. L. Fung, Acta Phytotax. Sin. 18: 214. 1980. TYPE: Dendrocalamopsis oldhamii (Munro) Keng f. (Bambusa oldhamii Munro)
Ischurochloa Ischurochloa Buese, in Miquel, Pl. Jungh. 389. 1854. TYPE: Ischurochloa spinosa (Roxburgh) Buese (Bambusa spinosa Roxburgh)
Leleba Leleba Nakai, J. Jap. Bot. 9: 9. 1933. TYPE: Leleba floribunda (Buese) Nakai (Ischurochloa floribunda Buese) Lectotypified by McClure, Taxon 6: 204. 1957.
Lingnania Lingnania McClure, Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. 9: 34. 1940. TYPE: Lingnania chungii (McClure) McClure (Bambusa chungii McClure)
Neosinocalamus Neosinocalamus Keng f., J. Bamboo Res. 2: 12. 1983. TYPE: Neosinocalamus affinis (Rendle) Keng f. (Dendrocalamus affinis Rendle)
Sinocalamus Sinocalamus McClure, Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. 9: 66. 1940. TYPE: Sinocalamus latiflorus (Munro) McClure (Dendrocalamus latiflorus Munro)