Myriocladus

Myriocladus
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Supertribe: Bambusodae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Arthrostylidiinae
Genus: Myriocladus
Swallen
Type species
Myriocladus virgatus
Swallen[1][2]

Myriocladus is a South American genus of bamboo in the grass family.).[3] It is found in the sandstone tablelands of Venezuela, Guyana, Surinam, and northern Brazil.[4][5]

Species[6][7][8]
  1. Myriocladus cardonae
  2. Myriocladus churunensis
  3. Myriocladus distantiflorus
  4. Myriocladus exsertus
  5. Myriocladus grandifolius
  6. Myriocladus involutus
  7. Myriocladus longiramosus
  8. Myriocladus neblinaensus
  9. Myriocladus paludicola
  10. Myriocladus simplex
  11. Myriocladus steyermarkii
  12. Myriocladus virgatus

References

  1. lectotype designated by McClure, Taxon 6: 205 (1957)
  2. Tropicos, Myriocladus Swallen
  3. Swallen, Jason Richard. 1951. Fieldiana, Botany 28(1): 34
  4. Filgueiras, T. S. & A. P. Santos-Gonçalves. 2004. A checklist of the basal grasses and bamboos in Brazil (Poaceae). Journal of the American Bamboo Society 18(1): 7–18.
  5. Judziewicz, E. J. 1998. A revision of Myriocladus (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae). Brittonia 50(4): 430–446.
  6. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  7. The Plant List search for Myriocladus
  8. Judziewicz, E. J. 2000. Myriocladus. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 76–78.
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