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The genus Bambusa is in the family Poaceae in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the end of the page.

Species in Bambusa

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See "Status", "Confidence level", "Source" for definitions.

Name	Status	Confi­dence level	Source
Bambusa affinis Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa albolineata L.C.Chia	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa amahussana Lindl.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa amplexicaulis W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa angustiaurita W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa angustissima L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa arnhemica F.Muell.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa aurinuda McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa australis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa balcooa Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa basihirsuta McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa basisolida W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa beecheyana Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa bicicatricata (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa binghamii Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa blumeana Schult.f.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa boniopsis McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa brevispicula Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa brunneoaciculia G.A.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa burmanica Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa cacharensis R.B.Majumdar	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa cerosissima McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa chungii McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa chunii L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa clavata Stapleton	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa comillensis Alam	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa concava W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa contracta L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa copelandii Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa corniculata L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa cornigera McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa crispiaurita W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa diaoluoshanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa dissimulator McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa distegia (Keng & Keng f.) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa dolichoclada Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa duriuscula W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa emeiensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa eutuldoides McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa farinacea K.M.Wong	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa fimbriligulata McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa flexuosa Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa fruticosa Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa funghomii McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa gibba McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa gibboides W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa glabrovagina G.A.Fu	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa glaucophylla Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa grandis (Q.H.Dai & X.l.Tao ex Keng f.) Ohrnb.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa griffithiana Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa guangxiensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa hainanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa heterostachya (Munro) Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa horsfieldii Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa indigena L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa insularis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa intermedia Hsueh & T.P.Yi	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa jacobsii Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa jaintiana R.B.Majumdar	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa khasiana Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa kingiana Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa lako Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa lapidea McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa latideltata W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa laxa K.M.Wong	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa lenta L.C.Chia	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa longipalea W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa longispiculata Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa macrolemma Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa macrotis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa maculata Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa malingensis McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa marginata Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa merrillii Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa microcephala (Pilg.) Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa mollis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa moreheadiana F.M.Bailey	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa multiplex (Lour.) Raeusch. ex Schult.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa mutabilis McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa nepalensis Stapleton	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa nutans Wall. ex Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa odashimae Hatus. ex D.Z.Li & Stapleton	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa oldhamii Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa oliveriana Gamble	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa ooh Widjaja & Astuti	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa pachinensis Hayata	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa pallida Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa papillata (Q.H.Dai) K.M.Lan	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa papillatoides Q.H.Dai & D.Y.Huang	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa pervariabilis McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa pierreana E.G.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa piscatorum McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa polymorpha Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa procera A.Chev. & A.Camus	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa prominens H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa ramispinosa L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa remotiflora (Kuntze) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa riauensis Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa rigida Keng & Keng f.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa riparia Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa rongchengensis (T.P.Yi & C.Y.Sia) D.Z.Li	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa rugata (W.T.Lin) Ohrnb.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa rutila McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa salarkhanii Alam	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa semitecta W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa sesquiflora (McClure) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa sinospinosa McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa solomonensis Holttum	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa stenoaurita (W.T.Lin) T.H.Wen	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa subaequalis H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa subtruncata L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa surrecta (Q.H.Dai) Q.H.Dai	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa tabacaria Poir.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa teres Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa textilis McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa truncata B.M.Yang	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa tsangii McClure	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa tulda Roxb.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa tuldoides Munro	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa utilis W.C.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa valida (Q.H.Dai) W.T.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa variostriata (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa villosula Kurz	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa vinhphuensis T.Q.Nguyen	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa viridis Widjaja	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa vulgaris Schrad.	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa wenchouensis (T.H.Wen) Keng f. ex Q.F.Zheng, Y.M.Lin	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa xiashanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung	Accepted		WCSP
Bambusa xueana Ohrnb.	Accepted		WCSP

Statistics

The Plant List includes 509 scientific plant names of species rank for the genus Bambusa. Of these 130 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 97 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the genus Bambusa. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 509 species names for the genus Bambusa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	130	25.5%
◕	Synonym	312	61.3%
◕	Unplaced	17	3.3%
◕	Unassessed	50	9.8%

All names

The status of the 606 names (including infraspecific names) for the genus Bambusa recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	132	21.8%
◕	Synonym	406	67.0%
◕	Unplaced	18	3.0%
◕	Unassessed	50	8.3%

Of these names,

• 67 are recorded as invalid
• 25 are recorded as illegitimate

The confidence with which the status of the 509 species names recorded in The Plant List for the genus Bambusa, are assigned as follows:

	Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
	High confidence	128	280	0	0	408	80.2%
	Medium confidence	0	26	0	0	26	5.1%
	Low confidence	2	6	17	50	75	14.7%

The source of the species name record found in The Plant List for the genus Bambusa, are as follows: