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Genus of grasses
Schizostachyum diffusum is a climbing bamboo that grows in clusters.
Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like
tropical
genus of
bamboo .
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[3] They are natives mostly of tropical
Asia and
Papuasia , with a few species in
Madagascar and on certain islands in the
Pacific .
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[4] A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.
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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 .
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Species
The 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
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see
Bambusa
Cephalostachyum
Cyrtochloa
Dendrocalamus
Dinochloa
Eremocaulon
Gigantochloa
Nastus
Neohouzeaua
Pseudostachyum
Pseudoxytenanthera
Sirochloa
Some also include the genus
Leptocanna in this genus.
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