Sasa (plant)

Sasa (Japanese: ササ or 笹), also called broad-leaf bamboo, is a genus of running bamboo. These species have at most one branch per node.

Selected species

 * Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata – northern bamboo, Jirisan bamboo
 * Sasa kagamiana
 * Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata – chishimazasa, Kuril bamboo, Korean bamboo
 * Sasa nagimontana – muroi
 * Sasa nipponica (Makino) Makino & Shibata
 * Sasa oshidensis
 * Sasa palmata (Burb.) E.G.Camus – broad-leaf bamboo
 * Sasa senanensis
 * Sasa tsuboiana
 * Sasa veitchii – kumazasa

Fossil record
Fossil leaves of †Sasa kodorica are described from the Pliocene of Kodori Valley in Abkazia.