Schizostachyum

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]

Schizostachyum
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 Nees
Synonyms[1]
'Dendrochloa C.E.Parkinson Teinostachyum Munro

The genus name comes from Greek schistos ("cleft") and stachys ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets.

These are clumping, and sometimes climbing bamboos.

Species[1][6]

1. Schizostachyum aciculare - Borneo, Malaysia, Indochina
2. Schizostachyum aequiramosum - Java
3. Schizostachyum alopecurus - New Guinea
4. Schizostachyum andamanicum - Andaman Islands
5. Schizostachyum arunachalensis - Arunachal Pradesh
6. Schizostachyum atrocingulare - Sumatra
7. Schizostachyum auriculatum - Guangxi
8. Schizostachyum bamban - Sumatra
9. Schizostachyum beddomei - India
10. Schizostachyum blumei - from Vietnam to Java
11. Schizostachyum brachycladum - from Vietnam to Java
12. Schizostachyum brachythyrsus - New Guinea
13. Schizostachyum castaneum - Bali
14. Schizostachyum caudatum - Java, Sumatra
15. Schizostachyum chinense - Yunnan
16. Schizostachyum copelandii - New Guinea
17. Schizostachyum coradatum - Jiangxi
18. Schizostachyum cornutum - Sumatra
19. Schizostachyum curranii - Philippines
20. Schizostachyum cuspidatum - Sumatra
21. Schizostachyum diaoluoshanense - Hainan
22. Schizostachyum distans - Myanmar
23. Schizostachyum dullooa - Eastern Himalayas, Myanmar, Vietnam
24. Schizostachyum dumetorum - Guangdong, Jiangxi
25. Schizostachyum flexuosum - Borneo
26. Schizostachyum funghomii - Arunachal Pradesh, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam; naturalized in Honduras, Puerto Rico
27. Schizostachyum glaucifolium - Marquesas
28. Schizostachyum glaucocladum - Kalimantan
29. Schizostachyum gracile - Vietnam, Peninsular Malaysia
30. Schizostachyum grande - Laos, Peninsular Malaysia
31. Schizostachyum griffithii - Assam, Myanmar
32. Schizostachyum hainanense - Hainan, Vietnam
33. Schizostachyum hantu - Sarawak
34. Schizostachyum insulare - Peninsular Malaysia
35. Schizostachyum iraten - Java
36. Schizostachyum jaculans - Hainan, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
37. Schizostachyum kalpongianum - Andaman Islands
38. Schizostachyum khoonmengii - Brunei
39. Schizostachyum latifolium - Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia
40. Schizostachyum lengguanii - Peninsular Malaysia
41. Schizostachyum lima - Philippines, Sulawesi, Maluku, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands
42. Schizostachyum lumampao - Philippines
43. Schizostachyum lutescens - Sumatra
44. Schizostachyum mampouw - Sumatra
45. Schizostachyum mannii - Assam
46. Schizostachyum ninhthuanense - Vietnam
47. Schizostachyum perrieri - Madagascar
48. Schizostachyum pilosum - Sabah
49. Schizostachyum pingbianense - Yunnan
50. Schizostachyum pleianthemum - Sumatra
51. Schizostachyum pseudolima - Hainan, Vietnam
52. Schizostachyum rogersii - Myanmar, Andaman Islands
53. Schizostachyum sanguineum - Yunnan
54. Schizostachyum seshagirianum - Arunachal Pradesh
55. Schizostachyum silicatum - Sumatra
56. Schizostachyum terminale - Peninsular Malaysia
57. Schizostachyum tessellatum - Solomon Islands
58. Schizostachyum textorium - Philippines
59. Schizostachyum undulatum - Sumatra
60. Schizostachyum wanshishanense - Fujian
61. Schizostachyum warburgii - Maluku
62. Schizostachyum whitei - New Guinea
63. Schizostachyum yalyense - Vietnam
64. Schizostachyum zollingeri - from Vietnam to Java

formerly included[1]

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 - Bambusa 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. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
2. Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 535 in Latin
3. Tropicos, Schizostachyum Nees
4. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 50 岭南竹属 si lao zhu shu Schizostachyum Nees in Martius et al.
5. 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
6. The Plant List search for Schizostachyum