Biology:Otatea
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Short description: Genus of grasses
| Weeping bamboo | |
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| Mexican weeping bamboo (Otatea aztecorum) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Clade: | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Bambusoideae |
| Tribe: | Bambuseae |
| Subtribe: | Guaduinae |
| Genus: | Otatea (McClure & E.W.Sm.) C.E.Calderón & Soderstr. |
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Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.[2][3][4]
The name derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "otatl", meaning "bamboo".
- Otatea acuminata (Munro) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr. – widespread from Chihuahua to Oaxaca
- Otatea carrilloi Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés – Chiapas
- Otatea fimbriata Soderstr. – widespread from Norte de Santander to Chiapas
- Otatea glauca L.G.Clark & G.Cortés – Chiapas
- Otatea ramirezii Ruiz-Sanchez – Querétaro[8]
- Otatea reynosoana Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit
- Otatea rzedowskiorum Ruiz-Sanchez – Chiapas
- Otatea transvolcanica Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – México State, Jalisco, Colima
- Otatea victoriae Ruiz-Sanchez – Hidalgo
- Otatea ximenae Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Oaxaca, Michoacán
References
- ↑ The International Plant Names Index
- ↑ Calderón, Cléofe E. & Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1980. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 44: 21
- ↑ Tropicos, Otatea (McClure & E.W. Sm.) C.E. Calderón & Soderstr.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Ruiz-Sanchez, E., V. Sosa, M. T. Mejía-Saules, X. Londoño & L. G. Clark. 2011. A taxonomic revision of Otatea (Poaceae, Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) including four new species. Systematic Botany 36(2): 314–336.
- ↑ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ↑ Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236 [and index].
- ↑ Ruiz-Sanchez, E., 2015. Parametric and non-parametric species delimitation methods result in the recognition of two new Neotropical woody bamboo species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93, pp.261–273.
- ↑ Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo. 2012. Acta Botánica Mexicana 99: 25, figure 1
Wikidata ☰ Q581435 entry
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