''Actinocladum'' is a
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
n
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, ...
in the
grass family.
;Species
The only known species is ''Actinocladum verticillatum.''
[Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
/ref> The species is widespread across Bolivia and much of Brazil
Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...
.[Renvoize, S. A. 1998. Gramíneas de Bolivia1–644. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]
See also
* List of Poaceae genera
The true grasses (Poaceae) are one of the largest plant families, with around 12,000 species and roughly 800 genera. They contain, among others, the cereal crop species and other plants of economic importance, such as the bamboos, and several imp ...
References
Bambusoideae genera
Bambusoideae
Grasses of South America
Grasses of Brazil
Flora of Bolivia
Monotypic Poaceae genera
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