''Aulonemia deflexa'' is a species of
bamboo
Bamboos are a diverse group of evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family. The origin of the word "bamboo" is uncertain, ...
in the genus ''
Aulonemia
''Aulonemia'' is a genus of Latin American bamboo in the grass family
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamb ...
''.
The species is part of the
grass family
Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...
and is endemic to Latin America.
[Goudot, Justin P. 1846. Annales des Sciences Naturelles; Botanique, sér. 3 5: 75]
References
deflexa
Taxa named by N. E. Brown
Taxa named by Floyd Alonzo McClure
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