Thamnocalamus

Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family.[3] These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.[4][5]

Thamnocalamus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Arundinarieae
Subtribe: Arundinariinae
Genus: Thamnocalamus
Munro
Type species
Thamnocalamus spathiflorus [1][2]
(Trin.) Munro.
Synonyms[2]
  • Arundinaria sect. Thamnocalamus (Munro) Hack.

Thamnocalamus is closely related to Fargesia. The two genera are sometimes regarded as a single genus by some authors.[6]

Species[7][8]
  1. Thamnocalamus chigar (Stapleton) Stapleton - Nepal
  2. Thamnocalamus spathiflorus (Trin.) Munro - Tibet, Bhutan, India, Nepal
  3. Thamnocalamus tessellatus (Nees) Soderstr. & R.P.Ellis - Madagascar, KwaZulu-Natal, Free State, Lesotho, Cape Province
  4. Thamnocalamus unispiculatus T.P.Yi & J.Y.Shi - Tibet
formerly included[7]

see Chimonobambusa Drepanostachyum Fargesia Himalayacalamus Neomicrocalamus Pleioblastus Pseudosasa

  • Thamnocalamus collaris - Himalayacalamus collaris
  • Thamnocalamus cuspidatus - Fargesia cuspidata
  • Thamnocalamus denudatus - Fargesia denudata
  • Thamnocalamus dracocephalus - Fargesia dracocephala
  • Thamnocalamus falcatus - Drepanostachyum falcatum
  • Thamnocalamus falconeri - Himalayacalamus falconeri
  • Thamnocalamus hindsii - Pseudosasa hindsii
  • Thamnocalamus hindsii var. gramineus - Pleioblastus gramineus
  • Thamnocalamus murielae - Fargesia murielae
  • Thamnocalamus nitidus - Fargesia nitida
  • Thamnocalamus nitidus subsp. ciliatus - Fargesia qinlingensis
  • Thamnocalamus prainii - Neomicrocalamus prainii
  • Thamnocalamus quadrangularis - Chimonobambusa quadrangularis
  • Thamnocalamus ringala - Drepanostachyum falcatum
  • Thamnocalamus robustus - Fargesia robusta
  • Thamnocalamus sparsiflorus - Fargesia murielae
  • Thamnocalamus spathaceus - Fargesia spathacea
  • Thamnocalamus vaginatus - Pleioblastus argenteostriatus

References
  1. lectotype designated by Bentham in Benth. & Hook., Gen. Pl. 3(2): 1208 (1883)
  2. Tropicos, Thamnocalamus Munro
  3. Munro, William. 1868. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26(1): 33-35 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 73 筱竹属 xiao zhu shu Thamnocalamus Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London. 26: 33. 1868
  5. Chao, C. & S. A. Renvoize. 1989. A revision of the species described under Arundinaria (Gramineae) in southeast Asia and Africa. Kew Bulletin 44(2): 349–367
  6. Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Bamboos of the World 1–585
  7. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  8. The Plant List search for Thamnocalamus
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