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Cephalostachyum is a genus of Asian and Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.[3][2]

The plants are of small to medium size compared to most other bamboo. Their choice habitats are mountain to lowland forests.[4]

Species[5][6]
  1. Cephalostachyum burmanicum - Myanmar
  2. Cephalostachyum capitatum - Myanmar, Assam, Bhutan
  3. Cephalostachyum chapelieri - Madagascar
  4. Cephalostachyum flavescens - Myanmar, Andaman Islands
  5. Cephalostachyum langbianense - Vietnam
  6. Cephalostachyum latifolium - Yunnan, Myanmar, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim
  7. Cephalostachyum mannii - Yunnan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Bhutan
  8. Cephalostachyum mindorense - Philippines
  9. Cephalostachyum pallidum - Yunnan, Myanmar, Assam, Tibet
  10. Cephalostachyum pergracile - Yunnan, Myanmar, Assam, Laos, Bhutan
  11. Cephalostachyum perrieri - Madagascar
  12. Cephalostachyum scandens - Yunnan, Myanmar
  13. Cephalostachyum viguieri - Madagascar
  14. Cephalostachyum virgatum - Yunnan, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam
formerly included[5]

see Bambusa Cathariostachys Dendrocalamus Kinabaluchloa Schizostachyum

Museums

Chinese maps show a Cephalostachyum Museum in Beijing. However, this appears to be a mistranslation; the museum is actually dedicated to the diabolo, a kind of yo-yo made of bamboo.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ lectotype designated by McClure, Taxon 6(7): 201 (1957)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Cephalostachyum Munro
  3. ^ Munro, William. 1868. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 26(1): 138-141 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  4. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 54 空竹属 kong zhu shu Cephalostachyum Munro, Trans. Linn. Soc. London. 26: 138. 1868.
  5. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  6. ^ The Plant List search for Cephalostachyum
  7. ^ Beijing's Diabolical Cephalostachyum Museum.
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