Schizostachyum Nees

Polynesian 'ohe (en)

Genus

Angiosperms > Poales > Poaceae

Characteristics

Arborescent bamboos, sometimes shrubby or scrambling. Rhizomes short necked, pachymorph. Culms erect, pendulous, or clambering, straight or slightly flexuose; internodes terete, distally often white powdery; wall usually thin; nodal ridge not prominent; sheath scar prominent. Branches many, subequal. Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery to thickly papery, usually rigid, white powdery, apex truncate or concave, sometimes with subcircular projection at base of one margin; auricles usually inconspicuous; oral setae usually developed; ligule short, truncate, margin serrulate or fimbriate; blade usually reflexed, adaxially densely hispid, apex usually involute. Leaf sheaths usually grooved; auricles usually inconspicuous; blade large, transverse veins partially visible abaxially. Inflorescence fully bracteate, iterauctant; with several to many sessile pseudospikelets in loose, spicate clusters on leafy or leafless flowering branches. Pseudospikelet prophyll triangular to linear-lanceolate; gemmiferous bracts 1 to several; fertile florets 1 or 2, or florets 3 or 4 with only terminal or subterminal floret fertile; rachilla usually disarticulating (not in S. chinense), extending beyond fertile floret, glumes usually absent (2 in S. chinense); lemma convolute; palea similar to lemma, but longer, not keeled; lodicules usually absent, sometimes 1–3. Stamens 6. Ovary stalked; style 1; stigmas 3, plumose. Caryopsis fusiform, apex with persistent style base.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Images

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Distribution

Schizostachyum world distribution map, present in Andorra, Bangladesh, China, Cook Islands, Honduras, Indonesia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Moldova (Republic of), Madagascar, Myanmar, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Solomon Islands, Thailand, Tonga, United States of America, Viet Nam, and Samoa

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:327061-2
WFO ID wfo-4000034456
COL ID 8W3DZ
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INPN ID 446336
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Synonyms

Schizostachyum

Lower taxons

Schizostachyum aciculare Schizostachyum aequiramosum Schizostachyum andamanicum Schizostachyum atrocingulare Schizostachyum auriculatum Schizostachyum bamban Schizostachyum castaneum Schizostachyum copelandii Schizostachyum cornutum Schizostachyum curranii Schizostachyum cuspidatum Schizostachyum dumetorum Schizostachyum flexuosum Schizostachyum funghomii Schizostachyum glaucifolium Schizostachyum glaucocladum Schizostachyum gracile Schizostachyum grande Schizostachyum hainanense Schizostachyum insulare Schizostachyum iraten Schizostachyum jaculans Schizostachyum kalpongianum Schizostachyum khoonmengii Schizostachyum latifolium Schizostachyum lengguanii Schizostachyum lumampao Schizostachyum mampouw Schizostachyum pilosum Schizostachyum pleianthemum Schizostachyum pseudolima Schizostachyum rogersii Schizostachyum silicatum Schizostachyum terminale Schizostachyum tessellatum Schizostachyum undulatum Schizostachyum whitei Schizostachyum zollingeri Schizostachyum yalyense Schizostachyum ninhthuanense Schizostachyum wanshishanense Schizostachyum alopecurus Schizostachyum blumei Schizostachyum brachythyrsus Schizostachyum distans Schizostachyum dullooa Schizostachyum hantu Schizostachyum perrieri Schizostachyum textorium Schizostachyum diaoluoshanense Schizostachyum lima Schizostachyum caudatum Schizostachyum caudatum Schizostachyum longinternodium Schizostachyum kuisingii Schizostachyum purpureum Schizostachyum cambodianum Schizostachyum nghianum Schizostachyum diffusum Schizostachyum griffithii Schizostachyum pergracile Schizostachyum virgatum Schizostachyum warburgii Schizostachyum beddomei Schizostachyum brachycladum Schizostachyum lutescens