Bambusa

Bambusa is a large genus of clumping bamboos. Most species of Bambusa are rather large, with numerous branches emerging from the nodes, and one or two much larger than the rest. The branches can be as long as 11 m (35 ft).

They are native to Southeast Asia, South Asia, China, Taiwan, the Himalayas, New Guinea, Melanesia, and the Northern Territory of Australia. They are also reportedly naturalized in other regions, e.g. Africa, Americas, and various oceanic islands.

Species
Plants of the World Online includes:
 * 1) Bambusa affinis Munro – Laos, Myanmar
 * 2) Bambusa albolineata L.C.Chia – Fujian, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
 * 3) Bambusa alemtemshii H.B.Naithani – Nagaland
 * 4) Bambusa amplexicaulis W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
 * 5) Bambusa angustiaurita W.T.Lin – Guangdong
 * 6) Bambusa angustissima L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 7) Bambusa arnhemica F.Muell. – Northern Territory of Australia
 * 8) Bambusa assamica Barooah & Borthakur – Assam
 * 9) Bambusa aurinuda McClure – Guangxi, Vietnam
 * 10) Bambusa australis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Vietnam
 * 11) Bambusa balcooa Roxb. – India, Nepal, Assam, Bangladesh, Indo-China; naturalized in South Africa and the islands of the Gulf of Guinea
 * 12) Bambusa bambos (L.) Voss – India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Assam, Indochina; naturalized in Seychelles, Central America, West Indies, Java, Malaysia, Maluku, Philippines
 * 13) Bambusa barpatharica Borthakur & Barooah – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
 * 14) Bambusa basihirsuta McClure – Guangdong, Zhejiang
 * 15) Bambusa basihirsutoides N.H.Xia – Guangdong
 * 16) Bambusa basisolida W.T.Lin – Guangdong
 * 17) Bambusa beecheyana Munro – Taiwan, Myanmar, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan; naturalized in Colombia, Brazil
 * 18) Bambusa bicicatricata (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
 * 19) Bambusa binghamii Gamble – Myanmar
 * 20) Bambusa boniopsis McClure – Hainan
 * 21) Bambusa brevispicula Holttum – New Guinea
 * 22) Bambusa brunneoaciculia G.A.Fu – Hainan
 * 23) Bambusa burmanica Gamble – Bangladesh, Yunnan, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Peninsular Malaysia
 * 24) Bambusa cacharensis R.B.Majumdar – Bangladesh, Assam
 * 25) Bambusa cerosissima McClure – Guangdong. Guangxi, Vietnam
 * 26) Bambusa chungii McClure – Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan
 * 27) Bambusa chunii L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Laos; cultivated in Hong Kong
 * 28) Bambusa clavata Stapleton – Bhutan
 * 29) Bambusa comillensis Alam – india
 * 30) Bambusa concava W.T.Lin – Hainan
 * 31) Bambusa contracta L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong, Guangxi
 * 32) Bambusa copelandii Gamble – Myanmar
 * 33) Bambusa corniculata L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
 * 34) Bambusa cornigera McClure – Guangxi
 * 35) Bambusa crispiaurita W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
 * 36) Bambusa dahuazhu T.P.Yi & B.X.Li
 * 37) Bambusa dampaeana H.B.Naithani, Garbyal & N.S.Bisht – Mizoram
 * 38) Bambusa daporijoeana H.B.Naithani & Kandwal
 * 39) Bambusa deformis T.P.Yi & Lin Yang
 * 40) Bambusa diaoluoshanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
 * 41) Bambusa dissimulator McClure – Guangdong, Vietnam; naturalized in Brazil, Puerto Rico
 * 42) Bambusa distegia (Keng & Keng f.) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Sichuan
 * 43) Bambusa dolichoclada Hayata – Fujian, Taiwan; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands
 * 44) Bambusa duriuscula W.T.Lin – Hainan
 * 45) Bambusa emeiensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guizhou, Hunan, Sichuan, Yunnan
 * 46) Bambusa eutuldoides McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi; naturalized in Colombia
 * 47) Bambusa excurrensa G.A.Fu
 * 48) Bambusa farinacea K.M.Wong – Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia
 * 49) Bambusa fimbriligulata McClure – Myanmar
 * 50) Bambusa flexuosa Munro – Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Guangdong, Hainan
 * 51) Bambusa fruticosa Holttum – Papua New Guinea
 * 52) Bambusa funghomii McClure – Henan, Guangdong, Guangxi
 * 53) Bambusa garuchokua Barooah & Borthakur – Assam
 * 54) Bambusa gibba McClure – Vietnam, Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Jiangxi; naturalized in Ecuador
 * 55) Bambusa gibboides W.T.Lin – Guangdong
 * 56) Bambusa glabrovagina G.A.Fu – Hainan
 * 57) Bambusa glaucophylla Widjaja – Java
 * 58) Bambusa grandis (Q.H.Dai & X.L.Tao) Ohrnb. – Guangxi
 * 59) Bambusa griffithiana Munro – Manipur, Myanmar
 * 60) Bambusa guangxiensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
 * 61) Bambusa gurgandii K.M.Wong & Diep
 * 62) Bambusa hainanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
 * 63) Bambusa heterostachya (Munro) Holttum – Peninsular Malaysia
 * 64) Bambusa horsfieldii Munro – Java, Philippines
 * 65) Bambusa indigena L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 66) Bambusa insularis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Hainan
 * 67) Bambusa intermedia Hsueh f. & T.P.Yi – Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan
 * 68) Bambusa jacobsii Widjaja – Java
 * 69) Bambusa jaintiana R.B.Majumdar – Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Myanmar
 * 70) Bambusa khasiana Munro – Assam
 * 71) Bambusa kingiana Gamble – Myanmar
 * 72) Bambusa kyathaungtu E.G.Camus
 * 73) Bambusa lako Widjaja – Timor
 * 74) Bambusa lapidea McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
 * 75) Bambusa latideltata W.T.Lin – Guangdong
 * 76) Bambusa laxa K.M.Wong – Peninsular Malaysia
 * 77) Bambusa lenta L.C.Chia – Fujian
 * 78) Bambusa lituiformis W.Arthan, Teerawat. & Sungkaew
 * 79) Bambusa longipalea W.T.Lin – Guangdong
 * 80) Bambusa longispiculata Gamble – Bangladesh, Myanmar; naturalized in Vietnam, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Puerto Rico
 * 81) †Bambusa lugdunensis Saporta – Neogene deposits of Europe
 * 82) Bambusa macrolemma Holttum – New Britain
 * 83) Bambusa macrotis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 84) Bambusa maculata Widjaja – Maluku
 * 85) Bambusa majumdarii P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
 * 86) Bambusa malingensis McClure – Hainan; naturalized in Cuba
 * 87) Bambusa manipureana H.B.Naithani & N.S.Bisht – Manipur
 * 88) Bambusa marginata Munro – Myanmar
 * 89) Bambusa merrillii Gamble – Luzon
 * 90) Bambusa microcephala (Pilg.) Holttum – New Guinea
 * 91) Bambusa mizorameana H.B.Naithani – Mizoram
 * 92) Bambusa mohanramii P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
 * 93) Bambusa mollis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
 * 94) Bambusa multiplex (Lour.) Raeusch. ex Schult.f. – Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Yunnan; naturalized in Madagascar, Mauritius, Seychelles, Iraq, Bismarck Archipelago, New Zealand, Chiapas, Central America, West Indies, Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Brazil, Florida, Georgia, Alabama
 * 95) Bambusa mutabilis McClure – Hainan; naturalized in Puerto Rico
 * 96) Bambusa nagalandiana H.B.Naithani – Nagaland
 * 97) Bambusa nairiana P.Kumari & P.Singh – Meghalaya
 * 98) Bambusa nepalensis Stapleton – Nepal
 * 99) Bambusa nghiana V.T.Tran - Vietnam, Thailand
 * 100) Bambusa nutans Wall. ex Munro – Himalayas of eastern + northern India; Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam
 * 101) Bambusa odashimae Hatus. ex D.Z.Li & Stapleton – Taiwan; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands
 * 102) Bambusa oldhamii Munro – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Taiwan, Zhejiang; naturalized in Taiwan, Ryukyu Islands, New Zealand, Chiapas, Honduras, Puerto Rico, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru
 * 103) Bambusa oliveriana Gamble – Myanmar
 * 104) Bambusa ooh Widjaja & Astuti – Bali
 * 105) Bambusa pachinensis Hayata – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Taiwan, Zhejiang
 * 106) Bambusa pallida Munro – Sikkim, Yunnan, Assam, Bangladesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Indochina
 * 107) Bambusa papillata (Q.H.Dai) K.M.Lan – Guangxi
 * 108) Bambusa papillatoides Q.H.Dai & D.Y.Huang – Guangxi
 * 109) Bambusa pervariabilis McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi; naturalized in Puerto Rico
 * 110) Bambusa pierreana E.G.Camus – Thailand, Vietnam
 * 111) Bambusa piscatorum McClure – Hainan
 * 112) Bambusa polymorpha Munro – Bangladesh, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand; naturalized in Assam, Sri Lanka, Java, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Ecuador
 * 113) Bambusa procera A.Chev. & A.Camus – Vietnam, Cambodia
 * 114) Bambusa prominens H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia – Sichuan
 * 115) Bambusa purpurovagian G.A.Fu
 * 116) Bambusa ramispinosa L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangxi
 * 117) Bambusa rangaensis Borthakur & Barooah – Arunachal Pradesh, Assam
 * 118) Bambusa rectocuneata (W.T.Lin) N.H.Xia, R.S.Lin & R.H.Wang – Guangdong
 * 119) Bambusa remotiflora (Kuntze) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam
 * 120) Bambusa riauensis Widjaja – Sumatra
 * 121) Bambusa rigida Keng & Keng f. – Sichuan
 * 122) Bambusa riparia Holttum – Papua New Guinea
 * 123) Bambusa rongchengensis (T.P.Yi & C.Y.Sia) D.Z.Li – Sichuan
 * 124) Bambusa rugata (W.T.Lin) Ohrnb. – Guangdong
 * 125) Bambusa rutila McClure – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan
 * 126) Bambusa salarkhanii Alam – Nepal, Bangladesh
 * 127) Bambusa semitecta W.T.Lin & Z.M.Wu – Guangdong
 * 128) Bambusa sesquiflora (McClure) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Thailand, Vietnam
 * 129) Bambusa sinospinosa McClure – Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
 * 130) Bambusa solida Munro ex Becc. – Borneo
 * 131) Bambusa solomonensis Holttum – Solomon Islands
 * 132) Bambusa spinosa Roxb. – Indonesia, Philippines; naturalized in southern China, Ryukyu Islands, Indochina, Malaysia, Puerto Rico (synonym B. blumeana )
 * 133) Bambusa stenoaurita (W.T.Lin) T.H.Wen – Guangdong
 * 134) Bambusa subaequalis H.L.Fung & C.Y.Sia – Sichuan
 * 135) Bambusa subtruncata L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 136) Bambusa surrecta (Q.H.Dai) Q.H.Dai – Guangxi
 * 137) Bambusa tabacaria (Lour.) Steud. – Vietnam, Java, Maluku
 * 138) Bambusa teres Munro – Tibet, Guangdong, Guangxi, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Assam, Myanmar
 * 139) Bambusa textilis McClure – Anhui, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam; naturalized in Colombia, Puerto Rico
 * 140) Bambusa transvenula (W.T.Lin & Z.J.Feng) N.H.Xia – Guangdong
 * 141) Bambusa truncata B.M.Yang – Hunan
 * 142) Bambusa tsangii McClure – Vietnam
 * 143) Bambusa tulda Roxb – Tibet, Yunnan, Himalayas, Nepal, Bhutan, Assam, India, Bangladesh, northern Indochina; naturalized in Iraq, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Puerto Rico
 * 144) Bambusa tuldoides Munro – Guangdong, Guangxi, Indochina; naturalized in Ryukyu Islands, Bangladesh, Chiapas, El Salvador, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Hispaniola, Trinidad, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia
 * 145) Bambusa utilis W.C.Lin – Taiwan
 * 146) Bambusa valida (Q.H.Dai) W.T.Lin – Guangxi
 * 147) Bambusa variostriata (W.T.Lin) L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 148) Bambusa ventricosa McClure – Guangdong, Vietnam; naturalized in Brazil, Malaysia
 * 149) Bambusa villosula Kurz – Myanmar
 * 150) Bambusa vinhphuensis T.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam
 * 151) Bambusa viridis Widjaja – western New Guinea
 * 152) Bambusa vulgaris Schrad. – Yunnan, Indochina; naturalized in parts of Africa, Madagascar, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Indian Subcontinent, Latin America, West Indies, United States (Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Florida, Arizona, South Carolina, Maryland, New Jersey)
 * 153) Bambusa wenchouensis (T.H.Wen) Keng f. ex Q.F.Zheng, Y.M.Lin – Fujian, Zhejiang
 * 154) Bambusa xiashanensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung – Guangdong
 * 155) Bambusa xueana Ohrnb. – Yunnan
 * 156) Bambusa xueliniana R.S.Lin & C.H.Zheng

Note: now placed in Pseudobambusa:
 * B. schizostachyoides Kurz ex Gamble – Myanmar, Vietnam, Andaman Islands

Fossil record
Fossil leaves of †Bambusa ilinskiae are described from the Miocene deposits of the Carpathians. The fossil leaves of †Bambusa lugdunensis are known mainly from the Miocene of the Massif du Coiron in Ardèche, France, Miocene of Bełchatów in Poland, Middle Miocene of Austria, the Neogene of the Transcarpathians and the Pliocene of southern France. Findings of fossil Bambusa leaf impressions of Messinian age (ca. 5.7 Ma) from Monte Tondo in the Romagna Apennines in northern Italy, are similar to fossil †Bambusa lugdunensis leaves.