| Short-spiked bamboo | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Monocots |
| (unranked): | Commelinids |
| Order: | Poales |
| Family: | Poaceae |
| Subfamily: | Bambusoideae |
| Supertribe: | Bambusodae |
| Tribe: | Bambuseae |
| Subtribe: | Shibataeinae |
| Genus: | Brachystachyum Keng |
| Species: | B. densiflorum |
| Binomial name | |
| Brachystachyum densiflorum (Rendle) Keng |
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Brachystachyum densiflorum, short-spiked bamboo, short-tassled bamboo, short spikelet bamboo is a species of bamboos, of the monotypic genus Brachystachyum. The genus names was formed from Greek and means precisely "short-spiked".
The species has one variety, Brachystachyum densiflorum var. villosum, referred to as hairy-sheathed short-spiked bamboo in English. The species is sometimes included in Semiarundinaria.