''Drepanostachyum'' is an

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of medium-sized mountain clumping

bamboos Bamboos are a diverse group of mostly evergreen perennial flowering plants making up the subfamily Bambusoideae of the grass family Poaceae. Giant bamboos are the largest members of the grass family, in the case of '' Dendrocalamus sinicus'' ...

in the

grass family Poaceae ( ), also called Gramineae ( ), is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos, the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in ...

. They are native to

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, and the

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Taxonomy

The differences between this genus and '' Himalayacalamus'' are subtle: ''Drepanostachyum'' species have many equal branches while those of ''Himalayacalamus'' have one dominant branch. ;SpeciesKew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
/ref>The Plant List search for ''Drepanostachyum''
/ref> ;Formerly included several species now considered better suited to other genera: '' Ampelocalamus

Dendrocalamus ''Dendrocalamus'' is a tropical Asian genus of giant clumping bamboos in the grass family. It is found in the Indian subcontinent, China, and Southeast Asia Southeast Asia is the geographical United Nations geoscheme for Asia#South-eastern ...

Fargesia ''Fargesia'' is a genus of flowering plants in the Poaceae, grass family. These bamboos are native primarily to China, with a few species in Vietnam and in the eastern Himalayas. Some species are cultivated as ornamentals, with common names inclu ...

Himalayacalamus''

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q3763476 Bambusoideae genera Flora of the Indomalayan realm Bambusoideae