Bambusa Truncata

''Bambusa'' is a large genus of clumping bamboos. Most species of ''Bambusa'' are rather large, with numerous branches emerging from the nodes, and one or two much larger than the rest. The branches can be as long as 11 m (35 ft).

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.Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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Species

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#''Bambusa affinis'' Munro – Laos, Myanmar
#''Bambusa albolineata'' L.C.Chia – Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
#''Bambusa alemtemshii'' H.B.Naithani – Nagaland
#'' Bambusa amplexicaulis'' W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa angustiaurita'' W.T.Lin – Guangdong
#''Bambusa angustissima'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#''Bambusa arnhemica'' F.Muell. – Northern Territory of Australia
#''Bambusa assamica'' Barooah & Borthakur – Assam
#''Bambusa aurinuda'' McClure – Guangxi, Vietnam
#''Bambusa australis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Vietnam
#''Bambusa balcooa'' Roxb. – India, Nepal, Assam, Bangladesh, Indo-China; naturalized in South Africa and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea
#''Bambusa bambos'' ( L.) Voss – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Assam, Indochina; naturalized in Seychelles, Central America, West Indies, Java, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines
#''Bambusa barpatharica'' Borthakur & Barooah – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
#''Bambusa basihirsuta'' McClure – Guangdong, Zhejiang
#'' Bambusa basihirsutoides'' N.H.Xia – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa basisolida'' W.T.Lin – Guangdong
#''Bambusa beecheyana'' Munro – Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan; naturalized in Colombia, Brazil
#'' Bambusa bicicatricata'' (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
#'' Bambusa binghamii'' Gamble – Myanmar
#''Bambusa blumeana'' Schult. & Schult. – Tropical Asia
#'' Bambusa boniopsis'' McClure – Hainan
#'' Bambusa brevispicula'' Holttum – New Guinea
#'' Bambusa brunneoaciculia'' G.A.Fu – Hainan
#'' Bambusa burmanica'' Gamble – Bangladesh, Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia
#'' Bambusa cacharensis'' R.B.Majumdar – Bangladesh, Assam
#''Bambusa cerosissima'' McClure – Guangdong. Guangxi, Vietnam
#''Bambusa chungii'' McClure – Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan
#''Bambusa chunii'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Laos; cultivated in Hong Kong
#''Bambusa clavata'' Stapleton – Bhutan
#'' Bambusa comillensis'' Alam – Bangladesh
#''Bambusa concava'' W.T.Lin – Hainan
#'' Bambusa contracta'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong, Guangxi
#'' Bambusa copelandii'' Gamble – Myanmar
#'' Bambusa corniculata'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa cornigera'' McClure – Guangxi
#''Bambusa crispiaurita'' W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa dampaeana'' H.B.Naithani, Garbyal & N.S.Bisht – Mizoram
#'' Bambusa diaoluoshanensis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
#''Bambusa dissimulator'' McClure – Guangdong, Vietnam; naturalized in Brazil, Puerto Rico
#'' Bambusa distegia'' (Keng & Keng f.) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Sichuan
#'' Bambusa dolichoclada'' Hayata – Fujian, Taiwan; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands
#'' Bambusa duriuscula'' W.T.Lin – Hainan
#''Bambusa emeiensis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan
#''Bambusa eutuldoides'' McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi; naturalized in Colombia
#'' Bambusa farinacea'' K.M.Wong – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
#'' Bambusa fimbriligulata'' McClure – Myanmar
#''Bambusa flexuosa'' Munro – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Guangdong, Hainan
#'' Bambusa fruticosa'' Holttum – Papua New Guinea
#'' Bambusa funghomii'' McClure – Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi
#'' Bambusa garuchokua'' Barooah & Borthakur – Assam
#'' Bambusa gibba'' McClure – Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi; naturalized in Ecuador
#'' Bambusa gibboides'' W.T.Lin – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa glabrovagina'' G.A.Fu – Hainan
#'' Bambusa glaucophylla'' Widjaja – Java
#''Bambusa grandis'' (Q.H.Dai & X.L.Tao) Ohrnb. – Guangxi
#''Bambusa griffithiana'' Munro – Manipur, Myanmar
#'' Bambusa guangxiensis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa hainanensis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
#'' Bambusa heterostachya'' (Munro) Holttum – Peninsular Malaysia
#'' Bambusa horsfieldii'' Munro – Java, Philippines
#'' Bambusa indigena'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#''Bambusa insularis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
#''Bambusa intermedia'' Hsueh f. & T.P.Yi – Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan
#'' Bambusa jacobsii'' Widjaja – Java
#''Bambusa jaintiana'' R.B.Majumdar – Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
#'' Bambusa khasiana'' Munro – Assam
#'' Bambusa kingiana'' Gamble – Myanmar
#''Bambusa lako'' Widjaja – Timor
#''Bambusa lapidea'' McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
#'' Bambusa latideltata'' W.T.Lin – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa laxa'' K.M.Wong – Peninsular Malaysia
#'' Bambusa lenta'' L.C.Chia – Fujian
#'' Bambusa longipalea'' W.T.Lin – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa longispiculata'' Gamble – Bangladesh, Myanmar; naturalized in Vietnam, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico
#†''Bambusa lugdunensis'' Saporta – Neogene deposits of Europe
#'' Bambusa macrolemma'' Holttum – New Britain
#'' Bambusa macrotis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa maculata'' Widjaja – Maluku
#'' Bambusa majumdarii'' P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
#''Bambusa malingensis'' McClure – Hainan; naturalized in Cuba
#'' Bambusa manipureana'' H.B.Naithani & N.S.Bisht – Manipur
#'' Bambusa marginata'' Munro – Myanmar
#''Bambusa merrillii'' Gamble – Luzon
#'' Bambusa microcephala'' (Pilg.) Holttum – New Guinea
#'' Bambusa mizorameana'' H.B.Naithani – Mizoram
#'' Bambusa mohanramii'' P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
#'' Bambusa mollis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa multiplex'' (Lour.) Raeusch. ex Schult.f. – Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Iraq, Bismarck Archipelago, New Zealand, Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Brazil, Florida, Georgia, Alabama
#''Bambusa mutabilis'' McClure – Hainan; naturalized in Puerto Rico
#'' Bambusa nagalandiana'' H.B.Naithani – Nagaland
#'' Bambusa nairiana'' P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
#'' Bambusa nepalensis'' Stapleton – Nepal
#'' Bambusa nutans'' Wall. ex Munro – Himalayas of eastern + northern India; Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
#''Bambusa odashimae'' Hatus. ex D.Z.Li & Stapleton – Taiwan; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands
#''Bambusa oldhamii'' Munro – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Zhejiang; naturalized in Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, New Zealand, Chiapas, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
#'' Bambusa oliveriana'' Gamble – Myanmar
#''Bambusa ooh'' Widjaja & Astuti – Bali
#'' Bambusa pachinensis'' Hayata – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang
#'' Bambusa pallida'' Munro – Sikkim, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Indochina
#''Bambusa papillata'' (Q.H.Dai) K.M.Lan – Guangxi
#''Bambusa papillatoides'' Q.H.Dai & D.Y.Huang – Guangxi
#''Bambusa pervariabilis'' McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi; naturalized in Puerto Rico
#'' Bambusa pierreana'' E.G.Camus – Thailand, Vietnam
#'' Bambusa piscatorum'' McClure – Hainan
#''Bambusa polymorpha'' Munro – Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Assam, Sri Lanka, Java, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ecuador
#'' Bambusa procera'' A.Chev. & A.Camus – Vietnam, Cambodia
#''Bambusa prominens'' H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia – Sichuan
#'' Bambusa ramispinosa'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa rangaensis'' Borthakur & Barooah – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
#''Bambusa rectocuneata'' (W.T.Lin) N.H.Xia, R.S.Lin & R.H.Wang – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa remotiflora'' (Kuntze) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam
#'' Bambusa riauensis'' Widjaja – Sumatra
#'' Bambusa rigida'' Keng & Keng f. – Sichuan
#'' Bambusa riparia'' Holttum – Papua New Guinea
#''Bambusa rongchengensis'' (T.P.Yi & C.Y.Sia) D.Z.Li – Sichuan
#''Bambusa rugata'' (W.T.Lin) Ohrnb. – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa rutila'' McClure – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan
#'' Bambusa salarkhanii'' Alam – Nepal, Bangladesh
#''Bambusa schizostachyoides'' Kurz ex Gamble – Myanmar, Vietnam, Andaman Islands
#'' Bambusa semitecta'' W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
#''Bambusa sesquiflora'' (McClure) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Thailand, Vietnam
#''Bambusa sinospinosa'' McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
#'' Bambusa solida'' Munro ex Becc. – Borneo
#'' Bambusa solomonensis'' Holttum – Solomon Islands
#'' Bambusa spinosa'' Roxb. – Indonesia, Philippines; naturalized in southern China, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Malaysia, Puerto Rico
#''Bambusa stenoaurita'' (W.T.Lin) T.H.Wen – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa subaequalis'' H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia – Sichuan
#''Bambusa subtruncata'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa surrecta'' (Q.H.Dai) Q.H.Dai – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa tabacaria'' (Lour.) Steud. – Vietnam, Java, Maluku
#''Bambusa teres'' Munro – Tibet, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar
#'' Bambusa textilis'' McClure – Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam; naturalized in Colombia, Puerto Rico
#'' Bambusa transvenula'' (W.T.Lin & Z.J.Feng) N.H.Xia – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa truncata'' B.M.Yang – Hunan
#''Bambusa tsangii'' McClure – Vietnam
#''Bambusa tulda'' Roxb – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, India, Bangladesh, northern Indochina; naturalized in Iraq, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico
#'' Bambusa tuldoides'' Munro – Guangdong, Guangxi, Indochina; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands, Bangladesh, Chiapas, El Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Trinidad, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia
#'' Bambusa utilis'' W.C.Lin – Taiwan
#'' Bambusa valida'' (Q.H.Dai) W.T.Lin – Guangxi
#'' Bambusa variostriata'' (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa ventricosa'' McClure – Guangdong, Vietnam; naturalized in Brazil, Malaysia
#'' Bambusa villosula'' Kurz – Myanmar
#'' Bambusa vinhphuensis'' T.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam
#''Bambusa viridis'' Widjaja – western New Guinea
#'' Bambusa vulgaris'' Schrad. – Yunnan, Indochina; naturalized in parts of Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Indian Subcontinent, Latin America, West Indies, United States (Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey)
#''Bambusa wenchouensis'' (T.H.Wen) Keng f. ex Q.F.Zheng, Y.M.Lin – Fujian, Zhejiang
#'' Bambusa xiashanensis'' L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
#'' Bambusa xueana'' Ohrnb. – Yunnan

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 Transcarpathians and the Pliocene of southern France. 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

*Domesticated plants and animals of Austronesia

References

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Bambusa,
Bambusoideae genera
Garden plants of Asia, Bamboo