Biology:Nastus

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Short description: Genus of grasses

Nastus
NastusBorbonicus.JPG
Nastus borbonicus
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Hickeliinae
Genus: Nastus
Juss.
Type species
Nastus borbonicus
J.F.Gmel.
Synonyms[1]
  • Stemmatospermum P.Beauv.
  • Oreiostachys Gamble

Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family.[2][3] It is native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and certain islands in the Indian Ocean (Madagascar and Réunion).[4]

Species[1][5]
formerly included[1]

see Arundinaria, Bambusa, Cathariostachys, Cenchrus, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Guadua, Melocanna, and Thamnocalamus


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  2. Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de. 1789. Genera Plantarum 34 in Latin
  3. Tropicos, Nastus Juss.
  4. Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Bamboos World 1–585
  5. The Plant List

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q559087 entry