Class
Order
Family
Classification
Subordinate Taxa
Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Pleioblastus Nakai, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 145-146 (1925)
Vernacular Name(s):
Bamboo
Description
Very small to medium-sized with rhizomes monopodial, short or elongated. Culms dense or diffuse, sometimes very slender; nodes prominent; internodes terete, ± hollow, fistula sometimes very narrow. Culm-sheaths ± persistent, < internodes, concolorous; auricles 0; oral bristles glabrous. Branches usually 1–7 per node. Leaf-sheath with oral bristles usually present (at least when young). Leaf-blade usually conspicuously tessellate, abaxially usually partly glaucous or glauc-esent and partly green. Inflorescence racemose or paniculate. Spikelets 5–13-flowered. Lodicules 3, ciliate. Stamens 3. Stigmas 3.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]
Biostatus
Exotic
| Category | Number |
|---|---|
| Exotic: Fully Naturalised | 5 |
| Total | 5 |
Bibliography
Mabberley, D.J. 2008: Mabberley's plant book, a portable dictionary of plants, their classification and uses. Edition 3. Cambridge University Press.
Nakai, T. 1925: Two new genera of Bambusaceae, with special remarks on the related genera growing in eatsern Asia. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 6: 145–154.
Sykes, W.R. 2000: Subfamily Bamusoideae. In: Edgar, E.; Connor, H. E. Flora of New Zealand Vol. V. Gramineae. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. 19–39.
