Contains 2 accepted taxa overall.
Characteristics
Classification
Citation
PHYLLOSTACHYS Siebold & Zuccarini, Abh. Math.-Phys. Cl. Koenigl. Bayer. Akad. 3: 745, 5(3). 1843, nom. cons.
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TYPE: Phyllostachys bambusoides Siebold & Zuccarini
Species
Scientific Name | Common Name | Herbarium Specimens | Status | Photos |
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Phyllostachys aurea | GOLDEN BAMBOO | Not Native Y | ||
Phyllostachys meyeri | MEYER'S BAMBOO | Not Native |
[Family identification key]
1. Rhizome internodes with ring of air canals; culm sheaths red-brown, sometimes tinged with green, unmarked or densely extremely minutely and imperceptibly dark brown spotted, spots aggregating into a distal dark brown patch; culm intranode ca. 5 mm; culm internodes green or gradually developing purple-brown to black spots or turning uniform purple-brown or black; leaf blade erect or gradually deflexed, imbricate at shoot apex; flowering branchlets shortly spicate
1. Rhizome internodes without air canals; culm sheaths yellow-green, yellow-brown, pale red-brown, brown-purple, dark green, or becoming straw-colored, sometimes striped with purple, with variably sized dark brown spots, proximally sometimes sparser and smaller; culm intranode ca. 3 mm; culm internodes green to yellow, glaucous, or purple; leaf blade usually horizontal or reflexed, rarely erect; flowering branchlets spicate
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2. Culm sheath oral setae present, auricles small; culm sheaths densely brown-hairy; culm internodes green to glaucous or purple
2. Culm sheath auricles and oral setae absent; culm sheaths fringed with white hairs at base, otherwise glabrous; culm internodes green to yellow
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3. Culm internodes strongly shortened and ventricose at culm base, inflated below nodes at mid-culm; culm sheath ligule short, 1–2 mm
3. Culm internodes normal; culm sheath ligule long, 3-5 mm long
Genus Synonyms
Synonym | Full Citation | Basionym | Type |
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Sinoarundinaria | Sinoarundinaria Ohwi, in Mayebara, Fl. Austro-Higo. 86. 1931. | TYPE: = Phyllostachys Siebold and Zuccarini 1843. |