Bambusa is a large genus of clumping .
They are native to Southeast Asia, South Asia, China, Taiwan, the Himalayas, New Guinea, Melanesia, and the Northern Territory of Australia. They are also reportedly naturalized in other regions, e.g. Africa, Americas, and various oceanic islands.[ Plants of the World Online (retrieved 15 March 2024)][ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 8, 9, 簕竹属 le zhu shu, Bambusa Schreber, Gen. Pl. 236. 1789. ][Clayton, W. D. & S. A. Renvoize. 1986. Genera graminum. Grasses of the world. Kew Bulletin : Additional Series 13: 1–389.][G.P. Chapman. 1997. Bamboos. Academic Press, New York.]
Species
, Plants of the World Online accepts the following 151 species:
Note: now placed in Pseudobambusa:
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B. schizostachyoides Kurz ex Gamble – Myanmar, Vietnam, Andaman Islands
Fossil record
Fossil leaves of †
Bambusa ilinskiae are described from the
Miocene deposits of the
Carpathians. The fossil leaves of †
Bambusa lugdunensis are known mainly from the
Miocene of the Massif du Coiron in Ardèche,
France, Miocene of Bełchatów in
Poland,
Middle Miocene of
Austria, the
Neogene of the Trans
carpathians and the
Pliocene of
southern France.
[Acta Palaeobotanica – Supplementum No. 3 – New Fossil Floras from Neogene Deposits in the Bełchatów Lignite Mine by Grzegor Worobiec – Polish Academy of Sciences, W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Krakow 2003] Findings of
fossil Bambusa leaf impressions of
Messinian age (ca. 5.7 Ma) from Monte Tondo in the
Romagna Apennines in northern
Italy, are similar to fossil †
Bambusa lugdunensis leaves.
[Palaeoenvironmental analysis of the Messinian macrofossil floras of Tossignano and Monte Tondo (Vena del Gesso Basin, Romagna Apennines, northern Italy) – Vasilis Teodoridis, Zlatko Kvacek, Marco Sami and Edoardo Martinetto – December 2015 .]
See also
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Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia
