Overview
Taxonomy
The Subtribe Melocanninae is a member of the Tribe Bambuseae. Here is the complete "parentage" of Melocanninae:
- Domain: Eukaryota
Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
(Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
Auct.
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Subclass: Commelinidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Superorder: Juncanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Order: Poales
Small, 1903
- Family: Gramineae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Subfamily: Bambusoideae
- Tribe: Bambuseae
- Subtribe: Melocanninae
- Tribe: Bambuseae
- Subfamily: Bambusoideae
- Family: Gramineae
A.L. de Jussieu, 1789, nom. cons., nom. alt.
- Order: Poales
Small, 1903
- Superorder: Juncanae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Subclass: Commelinidae
Takhtajan, 1967
- Class: Magnoliopsida
Brongniart, 1843 - Dicotyledons
- Infraphylum: Angiospermae
Auct.
- Subphylum: Euphyllophytina
(Auct.) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum: Tracheophyta
Sinnott, 1935 ex Cavalier-Smith, 1998 - Vascular Plants
- Subkingdom: Viridaeplantae
Cavalier-Smith, 1981 - Green Plants
- Kingdom: Plantae
Haeckel, 1866 - Plants
The Subtribe Melocanninae is further organized into finer groupings including:
- Genus (4): Melocanna · Ochlandra · Oxytenanthera · Schizostachyum
- Species: ZipcodeZoo has pages for 160 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in the Subtribe Melocanninae.
Genera
Melocanna
Melocanna is a genus of tropical clumping bamboo (tribe Bambuseae of the family Poaceae). It comprises 3 species, found in East Asia. The genus is similar to Bambusa. The 48-year cycle of M. baccifera in northeastern India is responsible for the mautam phenomenon of bamboo flowering, followed by a plague of rats and famine. [more]
Ochlandra
Oxytenanthera
Schizostachyum
Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like genus of bamboo. The genus name comes from Greek schistos ("cleft") and stachys ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets. [more]
At least 102 species and subspecies belong to the Genus Schizostachyum.
More info about the Genus Schizostachyum may be found here.
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