Schizostachyum


Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo. They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific. A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.

Description

The genus name comes from Greek and, referring to the spacing of spikelets.
These are clumping, sometimes climbing woody bamboos, with terete culm-internodes and short, thick, perennial rhizomes.

Species

The following are included in Plants of the World Online:
;formerly included
see Bambusa Cephalostachyum Cyrtochloa Dendrocalamus Dinochloa Eremocaulon Gigantochloa Nastus Neohouzeaua Pseudostachyum Pseudoxytenanthera Sirochloa
Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.