Ochlandra

Ochlandra
Ochlandra scriptoria
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Monocots
(unranked): Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Supertribe: Bambusodae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Melocanninae
Genus: Ochlandra
Thwaites
Type species
Ochlandra stridula
Moon ex Thwaites
Synonyms
  • Besha D.Dietr.
  • Beesha Munro 1868, illegitimate homonym not Kunth 1822

Ochlandra is a genus of Indian bamboo in the grass family).[1][2][3]

The species are endemic to the Western Ghats (India), except for one species from Sri Lanka.

Species[4]
  1. Ochlandra beddomei - Kerala
  2. Ochlandra ebracteata - India reed bamboo - Kerala
  3. Ochlandra keralensis - Kerala
  4. Ochlandra scriptoria - Tamil Nadu reed bamboo, Kerala reed bamboo - Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala
  5. Ochlandra setigera - Tamil Nadu, Kerala
  6. Ochlandra sivagiriana - Tamil Nadu, Kerala
  7. Ochlandra soderstromiana - Kerala
  8. Ochlandra spirostylis - Kerala
  9. Ochlandra stridula - Ceylon reed bamboo, Sri Lanka reed bamboo - Sri Lanka
  10. Ochlandra talbotii - Karnataka
  11. Ochlandra travancorica - elephant bamboo, India reed bamboo - Tamil Nadu, Kerala; naturalized in West Indies
  12. Ochlandra wightii - Karnataka, Kerala
formerly included

see Cathariostachys Nastus Schizostachyum Valiha

References

  1. Thwaites, George Henry Kendrick. 1864. Enumeratio Plantarum Zeylaniae 376 descriptions in Latin, commentary in English
  2. Triopicos, Ochlandra Thwaites
  3. Kumar, M. 1995. A re-investigation on the taxonomy of the genus Ochlandra Thw. (Poaceae-Bambusoideae). Rheedea 5(1): 63–89.
  4. Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
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