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Bambusa
Bambusa is a large genus of clumping bamboos. Most species of Bambusa are rather large, with numerous branches emerging from the nodes, and one or two much larger than the rest. The branches can be as long as 11 m (35 ft).
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Sasa
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Phyllostachys
Phyllostachys () is a genus of Asian bamboo in the grass family. Many of the species are found in central and southern China, with a few species in northern Indochina and in the Himalayas. Some of the species have become naturalized in parts of Asia, South America, Australia, and southern Europe.
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Fargesia
Fargesia is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. These bamboos are native primarily to China, with a few species in Vietnam and in the eastern Himalayas. Some species are cultivated as ornamentals, with common names including umbrella bamboo and fountain bamboo.
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Chusquea
Chusquea is a genus of evergreen bamboos in the grass family. Most of them are native to mountain habitats in Latin America, from Mexico to southern Chile and Argentina.
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Dendrocalamus
Dendrocalamus is a tropical Asian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia.
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Arundinaria
Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family, the members of which are referred to generally as cane. Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas. Within this region Arundinaria cane is found from the Coastal Plain to medium elevations in the Appalachian Mountains.
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Gigantochloa
Gigantochloa is a tropical Asian and Papuasian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in southern China, Southeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and New Guinea.
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Schizostachyum
thumb|x295px|Schizostachyum diffusum is a climbing bamboo that grows in clusters.
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Acidosasa
Acidosasa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
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Chimonobambusa
thumb|x170px|Chimonobambusa quadrangularis. Bamboo poles appear to be cylindrical like ordinary bamboos, but they are square to the touch. Native to China.
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Pseudosasa
Pseudosasa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
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Thamnocalamus
Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family. These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.
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Shibataea
Shibataea is a genus of Chinese bamboos in the grass family.
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Semiarundinaria
Semiarundinaria is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
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Guadua
Guadua is a Neotropical genus of thorny, clumping bamboo in the grass family, ranging from moderate to very large species.
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Indocalamus
Indocalamus is a genus of about 35 species of flowering plants in the grass family (Poaceae), native to central and southern China, Hainan, Vietnam, and Laos. They are quite small evergreen bamboos normally up to in height, initially forming clumps and then spreading to form larger thickets. They have thick, glossy leaves. Ruo leaves use to wrap foods like rice during dragon boat festival, originate in fujian refer to Indocalamus longiauritus originally but now are nonspecific to just about any leaf wrap.
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Ampelocalamus
Ampelocalamus is a genus of Asian bamboo in the grass family. It is found mostly in Southern China, with some species in the eastern Himalayas and northern Indochina.
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Alvimia
Alvimia is a Brazilian genus of bamboo in the grass family. It is native to the eastern coastal regions of the State of Bahia in eastern Brazil.
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Pleioblastus
Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.
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Yushania
Yushania is a genus of bamboo in the grass family.
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Otatea
Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.
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Pariana
Pariana is a genus of flowering plants in the grass family. It is native to tropical Central and South America.
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Olmeca
Olmeca is a genus of Mesoamerican bamboo in the grass family.
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Myriocladus
Myriocladus is a South American genus of bamboo in the grass family. It is found in the sandstone tablelands of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and northern Brazil.
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Aulonemia
Aulonemia is a genus of bamboo in the grass family. It is native to southern Mexico, Central America, and tropical South America.
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Dinochloa
Dinochloa is a genus of tropical clumping high-climbing bamboos in the grass family.
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Thyrsostachys
Thyrsostachys is a genus of Chinese and Indochinese bamboo in the grass family.
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Racemobambos
Racemobambos is a genus of bamboo (tribe Bambuseae within the family Poaceae). The genus is native to Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papuasia.
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Ekmanochloa
Ekmanochloa is a genus of plants in the grass family endemic to Cuba.
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Arthrostylidium
Arthrostylidium is a Neotropical genus of climbing bamboo in the grass family. the species are native to Central America, the West Indies, northern South America, and southern Mexico.
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Greslania
Greslania is a genus of small perennial bamboos in the grass family, endemic to New Caledonia. Two species are accepted.
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Athroostachys
Athroostachys is a Brazilian genus of bamboo in the grass family.
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Indosasa
Indosasa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family. The species are native to China and Indochina (Laos and Vietnam).
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Arberella
Arberella is a genus of Neotropical bamboo in the grass family.
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Nastus
Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. It includes 12 species native to Madagascar and Réunion.
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Diandrolyra
Diandrolyra is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family.
Agnesia
Agnesia is a genus of herbaceous South American bamboo in the grass family.
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Cryptochloa
Cryptochloa is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family, widespread across much of Mexico, Central America, and South America.
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Merostachys
Merostachys is a Neotropical genus of bamboo in the grass family. It is found in South America and Central America from Belize to Paraguay.
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Oxytenanthera
Oxytenanthera is a genus of African bamboo. Bamboos are members of the grass family Poaceae.
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Melocalamus
Melocalamus is a genus of Asian bamboos in the grass family. It is found in lowland areas of Southern China, Indochina, and the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent.
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Parodiolyra
Parodiolyra is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family.
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Melocanna
Melocanna is a genus of Asian clumping bamboo in the grass family.
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Vietnamosasa
Vietnamosasa is a genus of Indochinese bamboo in the grass family.
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Hickelia
Hickelia is a genus of African bamboo in the grass family.
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Ochlandra
Ochlandra is a genus of Indian bamboo in the grass family). The flowers have up to 150 stamens in each flower.
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Sinobambusa
Sinobambusa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family. It is native to China and Vietnam. Sinobambusa tootsik also occurs in Japan, having been introduced there during the Tang dynasty (618–907).
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Cephalostachyum
Cephalostachyum is a genus of Asian and Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
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Sphaerobambos
Sphaerobambos is a genus of Southeast Asian bamboo, in the grass family.
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Rhipidocladum
Rhipidocladum is a genus of New World woody bamboo in the grass family. It is found in Mesoamerica, Trinidad, and South America. The genus is characterized by having erect, non-pseudopetiolate culm leaves, numerous branchlets arising in an aspidate (fan-like) array, and by having true caryopses as fruit. The name is derived from the Greek rhipid meaning "fanlike" and clad meaning "branch".
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Colanthelia
Colanthelia is a genus of South American bamboo in the grass family, native to southern Brazil and northeastern Argentina.
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Lithachne
Lithachne is a genus of Neotropical plants in the grass family.
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Mniochloa
Mniochloa is a genus of Cuban plants in the grass family. The only known species is Mniochloa pulchella, native to eastern Cuba near Guantánamo.
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Atractantha
Atractantha is a South American genus of bamboo in the grass family, native to Brazil, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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Elytrostachys
Elytrostachys is a genus of bamboo (tribe Bambuseae of the family Poaceae), found in the rainforests from Honduras to Venezuela.
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Sucrea
Sucrea is a genus of Brazilian plants in the grass family.
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Perrierbambus
Perrierbambus is a genus of Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
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Olyra
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Oligostachyum
Oligostachyum is a genus of bamboo in the grass family, native to coastal China.