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Sasa

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EntityQ2322484· pop 29· linked from 64 articles

genus of plants

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomPlantae
  2. PhylumTracheophyta
  3. ClassLiliopsida
  4. OrderPoales
  5. FamilyPoaceae
Native toChina Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Kuril Is., Sakhalin
Observations recorded22,784

华箬竹属(学名:Sasamorpha)是禾本科下的一个属,为小灌木状竹。该属共有约3种,分布于日本和朝鲜。

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
120
With media
99
Family
Poaceae
Collections
INECOL, MICH, US
Recorded in
Mexico, Japan, United States, China

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Arundinarieae
Image
Sasa 001.jpg
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taxon name
Sasa
Commons category
Sasa
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Sasa
taxon common name
笹属
has fruit type
caryopsis
different from
Sasa
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Encyclopedic overview

Sasa is a genus of bamboo and part of the grass family (Poaceae). Sasa are characterized as being dwarf species of bamboo, typically under 2m in height, producing many thin culms from a highly branched and running root stock with only one branch per node. For their size, they have relatively large, wide leaves leading to the common name broadleaf bamboo.

All species are native to Asia, with the majority are native to Japan. Some species of Sasa have the northern-most distribution of any bamboo species and are native to Sakhalin in the Russian Far East and the nearby Kuril islands. The genus name Sasa is derived from the Japanese name sasa (笹 / ササ) meaning bamboo grass, used to distinguish Sasa from taller bamboo in Japan.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sasa” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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