Myriocladus (original) (raw)

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Genus of grasses

Myriocladus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Bambusoideae
Tribe:	Bambuseae
Subtribe:	Arthrostylidiinae
Genus:	MyriocladusSwallen
Type species
Myriocladus virgatusSwallen[1][2]

Myriocladus is a South American genus of bamboo in the grass family.[3] It is found in the sandstone tablelands of Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, and northern Brazil.[4][5]

Species[6][7][8]

1. Myriocladus cardonae

2. Myriocladus churunensis

3. Myriocladus distantiflorus

4. Myriocladus exsertus

5. Myriocladus grandifolius

6. Myriocladus involutus

7. Myriocladus longiramosus

8. Myriocladus neblinaensus

9. Myriocladus paludicola

10. Myriocladus simplex

11. Myriocladus steyermarkii

12. Myriocladus virgatus

13. ^ lectotype designated by McClure, Taxon 6: 205 (1957)

14. ^ Tropicos, Myriocladus Swallen

15. ^ Swallen, Jason Richard. 1951. Fieldiana, Botany 28(1): 34

16. ^ Filgueiras, T. S. & A. P. Santos-Gonçalves. 2004. A checklist of the basal grasses and bamboos in Brazil (Poaceae). Journal of the American Bamboo Society 18(1): 7–18.

17. ^ Judziewicz, E. J. 1998. A revision of Myriocladus (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae). Brittonia 50(4): 430–446.

18. ^ Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families

19. ^ The Plant List search for Myriocladus

20. ^ Judziewicz, E. J. 2000. Myriocladus. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 76–78.