Short-spiked bamboo

Taxobox
name = Short-spiked bamboo
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Bambusoideae
supertribus = Bambusodae
tribus = Bambuseae
subtribus = Shibataeinae
genus = "Brachystachyum"
genus_authority = Keng
species = "B. densiflorum"
binomial = "Brachystachyum densiflorum"
binomial_authority = (Rendle) Keng

The short-spiked bamboo or short-tassled bamboo, short spikelet bamboo ("Brachystachyum densiflorum") is a species of bamboos, of the monotypic genus "Brachystachyum". The genus names was formed from Greek and means precisely "short-spiked".

Taxonomy

The species has one variety, "Brachystachyum densiflorum" var. "villosum", referred to as hairy-sheathed short-spiked bamboo is English. The species is sometimes included in "Semiarundinaria".