| Schizostachyum | |
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| ʻOhe (Schizostachyum glaucifolium) | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae | 
| Clade: | Tracheophytes | 
| Clade: | Angiosperms | 
| Clade: | Monocots | 
| Clade: | Commelinids | 
| Order: | Poales | 
| Family: | Poaceae | 
| Subfamily: | Bambusoideae | 
| Tribe: | Bambuseae | 
| Subtribe: | Melocanninae | 
| Genus: | Schizostachyum Nees  | 
| Type species | |
| Schizostachyum blumei | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo.[2][3] They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific.[1][4] A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.[5]
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.[1]
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[4]
 
see Bambusa Cephalostachyum Cyrtochloa Dendrocalamus Dinochloa Eremocaulon Gigantochloa Nastus Neohouzeaua Pseudostachyum Pseudoxytenanthera Sirochloa
- Schizostachyum acutiflorum - Dinochloa acutiflora
 - Schizostachyum annulatum - Bambusa distegia
 - Schizostachyum apus - Gigantochloa apus
 - Schizostachyum bitung - Dendrocalamus asper
 - Schizostachyum bosseri - Sirochloa parvifolia
 - Schizostachyum brassii - Bambusa riparia
 - Schizostachyum burmanicum - Cephalostachyum burmanicum
 - Schizostachyum capitatum - Eremocaulon capitatum
 - Schizostachyum chilianthum - Nastus elegantissimus
 - Schizostachyum dielsianum - Dinochloa dielsiana
 - Schizostachyum diffusum - Dinochloa diffusa
 - Schizostachyum dumosum - Dendrocalamus dumosus
 - Schizostachyum durie - Bambusa spinosa
 - Schizostachyum elegans - Dendrocalamus elegans
 - Schizostachyum elegantissimum - Nastus elegantissimus
 - Schizostachyum fenixii - Cyrtochloa fenixii
 - Schizostachyum flavescens - Cephalostachyum flavescens
 - Schizostachyum fuchsianum - Cephalostachyum latifolium
 - Schizostachyum hasskarlianum - Gigantochloa hasskarliana
 - Schizostachyum helferi - Neohouzeaua helferi
 - Schizostachyum hindostanicum - Pseudoxytenanthera ritcheyi
 - Schizostachyum kurzii - Pseudobambusa schizostachyoides
 - Schizostachyum leviculme - Pseudostachyum polymorphum
 - Schizostachyum loriforme - Dendrocalamus asper
 - Schizostachyum luzonicum - Cyrtochloa luzonica
 - Schizostachyum munroi - Cephalostachyum capitatum
 - Schizostachyum palawanense - Dinochloa palawanensis
 - Schizostachyum pallidum - Cephalostachyum pallidum
 - Schizostachyum parvifolium - Sirochloa parvifolia
 - Schizostachyum pergracile - Cephalostachyum pergracile
 - Schizostachyum polymorphum - Pseudostachyum polymorphum
 - Schizostachyum scandens - Cephalostachyum scandens
 - Schizostachyum serpentinum - Gigantochloa nigrociliata
 - Schizostachyum sharmae - Cephalostachyum latifolium
 - Schizostachyum strictum - Neohouzeaua stricta
 - Schizostachyum subcordatum - Dendrocalamus pendulus
 - Schizostachyum tavoyanum - Neohouzeaua tavoyana
 - Schizostachyum toppingii - Cyrtochloa toppingii
 - Schizostachyum virgatum - Cephalostachyum virgatum
 
Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Plants of the World Online: Schizostachyum Nees (retrieved 14 March 2021)
 - ↑ Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 535 in Latin
 - ↑ Tropicos, Schizostachyum Nees
 - 1 2 Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 50 岭南竹属 si lao zhu shu Schizostachyum Nees in Martius et al.
 - ↑ Soreng, R. J. 2000. Schizostachyum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 112
 - ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
 
External links
 Media related to Schizostachyum at Wikimedia Commons
 Data related to Schizostachyum at Wikispecies
