Nastus
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Nastus borbonicus | |
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Genus: | Nastus |
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Nastus borbonicus | |
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Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family.[2][3] It is native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and certain islands in the Indian Ocean (Madagascar and Réunion).[4]
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- formerly included[1]
see Arundinaria, Bambusa, Cathariostachys, Cenchrus, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Guadua, Melocanna, and Thamnocalamus
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References
- ^ a b c d Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de. 1789. Genera Plantarum 34 in Latin
- ^ Tropicos, Nastus Juss.
- ^ Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Bamboos World 1–585
- ^ The Plant List
External links
- Bor, N. L. (1972) A new species of Nastus from New Guinea Plant Systematics and Evolution, 120 (1-2). pp. 87-91. ISSN 0378-2697
- The Archives of the Rare Fruit Council of Australia
- Camus, A. 1937. Nastus Humberlianus Bambou nouveau de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Vol. 84 (3) 1937
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