The genus name comes from Greek ("cleft") and ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets.
These are clumping, sometimes climbing woody bamboos, with terete culm-internodes and short, thick (pachymorph), perennial
rhizome
In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow hori ...
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Species
The following are included in
Plants of the World Online
Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants by ...
Cyrtochloa
''Cyrtochloa'' is a genus of Philippine 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 fami ...
Pseudostachyum
''Pseudostachyum polymorphum'' is a monotypic Asian species of bamboo in the grass family.PseudoxytenantheraSirochloa''
Some also include the genus ''
Leptocanna
''Cephalostachyum'' is a genus of Asian and Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
The plants are of small to medium size compared to most other bamboo. Their choice habitats are mountain to lowland forests.
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