Sasamorpha

Sasamorpha
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Arundinarieae
Subtribe: Arundinariinae
Genus: Sasamorpha
Nakai
Type species
Arundinaria purpurascens
Synonyms[4]
  • Sasa subgen. Sasamorpha (Nakai) C.H.Hu

Sasamorpha is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.[5][6][7]

Species[8]
  1. Sasamorpha borealis (Hack.) Nakai – Korea, Japan, Sakhalin
  2. Sasamorpha hubeiensis C.H.Hu – Hubei, Jiangxi
  3. Sasamorpha oshidensis (Makino & Uchida) Nakai – Japan
  4. Sasamorpha qingyuanensis C.H.Hu – Zhejiang
  5. Sasamorpha sinica (Keng) Koidz. – Anhui, Zhejiang
Formerly included[8]

several species now considered better suited to other genera: Indocalamus, Sasa.

  1. ^ lectotype designated by McClure, Taxon 6: 208 (1957)
  2. ^ Stapleton, Taxon 49: 545–546 (2000)
  3. ^ Tropicos, Sasamorpha Nakai
  4. ^ The International Plant Names Index
  5. ^ Nakai, Takenoshin. 1931. Journal of the Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University. Series 5, Botany 26(2): 180
  6. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 111 华箬竹亚属 hua ruo zhu ya shu Sasa subg. Sasamorpha (Nakai) C. H. Hu, Bamboo Res. 1985(2): 60. 1985.
  7. ^ Miyabe, Kingo. 1930. Flora of Hokkaido and Saghalien, 2: 180, Journal of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido Imperial University, Sapporo, v. 26, pt. 1–4
  8. ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families