Bambusoideae

Taxobox
name = Bamboos

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image_width = 200px
image_caption = Bamboo forest in Kyoto, Japan
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Liliopsida
ordo = Poales
familia = Poaceae
subfamilia = Bambusoideae
subdivision_ranks = Genera
subdivision = See text.

The Bambusoideae is a subfamily of the true grass family Poaceae, and is characterized by having 3 stigmas and are mostly tree-like [Judd, WS, CS Campbell, EA Kellogg, PF Stevens, MJ Donoghue [eds.] . 2008. Plant Systematics: A Phylogenetic Approach, 296-301. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland, Massachusetts USA.] . However, there are uncertainties at practically every taxonomic level within the Bambusoideae, and different types of data (floral morphology, vegetative structures, anatomy, and genetics) often result in support for differing relationships. The Bambusoideae generally consists a distinct “core” group of genera, the woody bamboos (Bambuseae)and an associated a group of genera of questionable affinity, the herbaceous Bambusoideae. The bamusoid taxa have long been considered the most “primitive” grasses, mostly because of the presence of bracteate, indeterminate inflorescences, “pseudospikelets,” and flowers with three lodicules, six stamens, and three stigmas [Clark, LG, W Zhang, JF Wendel. 1995. A Phylogeny of the Grass Family (Poaceae) Based on ndhF Sequence Data. Systematic Botany 20(4): 436-460.] . In a recent study Clark et al. (1995) analyzed DNA sequences for the chloroplast gene ndhF were analyzed to address phylogenetic relationships among the major lineages of the Poaceae. They found that two tribes of neotropical herbaceous bamboo tribes, the Streptochaeteae and Anomochloeae, are resolved as the most basal clade within the grass family, confirming the hypothesis that elements within the Bambusoideae sensu lato are basal within the Poaceae, and also showing that the Bambusoideae s.l. is polyphyletic [Clark, LG, W Zhang, JF Wendel. 1995. A Phylogeny of the Grass Family (Poaceae) Based on ndhF Sequence Data. Systematic Botany 20(4): 436-460.] . A recent study which analyzed the phylogenetic relationships within the Bambusoideae using rp116 intron sequence data from chloroplast DNA was able to further resolve some of the uncertainties remaining in Clark et al.’s (1995) analysis. Kelchner and Clark’s (1997) analysis resolved a Bambusoideae clade with two monophyletic groups: the Bambuseae (woody bamboos) and the Olyreae/Parianeae (herbaceous bamboos) [Kelchner, SA, LG Clark. 1997. Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetic Utility of the Chloroplast rpl16 Intron in Chusquea and the Bambusoideae (Poaceae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 8(3): 385-397.] . Within the Bambuseae two clades were recovered corresponding to temperate and tropical woody bamboos, and the tropical taxa were even further divided into New World and Old World clades. The distinct lineages produced strongly correspond with geographic divisions, with major clades representing the New World herbaceous species (Olyreae/Parianeae), New World tropical woody bamboos, Old World tropical woody bamboos, and North temperate woody bamboos (all Bambuseae).

ubdivisions

It is divided into two groups: the Oryzodae and the Bambusodae. It has 13 tribes, as following:

*Oryzodae
*:This group is also separated into subfamily Oryzaceae.
**Tribe Anomochloeae
**:This tribe is also separated to form subfamily Anomochlooideae. There is one genus: "Anomochloa".
**Tribe Diarrheneae
**:There is one genus: "Diarrhena".
**Tribe Ehrharteae
**:There are four genera: "Ehrharta, Microlaena, Petriella, Tetrarrhena".
**Tribe Olyreae
**:There are 20 genera: "Agnesia, Arberella, Buergersiochloa, Cryptochloa, Diandrolyra, Ekmanochloa, Froesiochloa, Lithachne" (also placed in Oryzeae), "Maclurolyra, Mniochloa, Olyra (plant), Pariana, Parodiolyra, Piresia, Piresiella, Raddia, Raddiella, Rehia, Reitzia, Sucrea".
**Tribe Oryzeae
**:This tribe also forms subfamily Oryzoideae. It has 13 genera: "Chikusichloa, Hydrochloa, Hygroryza, Leersia, Luziola, Maltebrunia, Oryza, Porteresia, Potamophila, Prosphytochloa, Rhynchoryza, Zizania, Zizaniopsis".
**Tribe Phaenospermatae
**:There is 1 genus in this tribe: "Phaenosperma".
**Tribe Phareae
**:There are 4 genera: "Leptaspis, Pharus, Scrotochloa, Suddia".
**Tribe Phyllorhachideae
**:This tribe has 2 genera: "Humbertochloa, Phyllorhachis".
**Tribe Streptochaeteae
**:There is one genus: "Streptochaeta".
**Tribe Streptogyneae
**:This tribe only has one genus: "Streptogyna".
*Bambusodae
**Tribe Bambuseae
**:This tribe comprises woody bamboos (or hardy bamboos). There are 91 genera, distributed into several subtribes:
***Subtribe Arthrostylidiinae
***:Comprises 13 genera: "Actinocladum, Alvimia, Apoclada, Arthrostylidium, Athroostachys, Atractantha, Aulonemia" ("Matudacalamus"), "Colanthelia, Elytrostachys, Glaziophyton, Merostachys, Myriocladus, Rhipidocladum".
***Subtribe Arundinariinae
***:Comprises 16 genera: "Acidosasa, Ampelocalamus, Arundinaria, Borinda, Chimonocalamus, Drepanostachyum" ("Himalayacalamus"), "Fargesia, Ferrocalamus, Gaoligongshania, Gelidocalamus, Indocalamus, Oligostachyum, Pseudosasa, Sasa, Thamnocalamus, Yushania".
***Subtribe Bambusinae
***:Comprises 10 genera: "Bambusa" ("Dendrocalamopsis"), "Bonia" ("Monocladus"), "Dendrocalamus" ("Klemachloa, Oreobambos, Oxynanthera" or "Sinocalamus"), "Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Holttumochloa, Kinabaluchloa" ("Maclurochloa, Soejatmia"), "Melocalamus, Sphaerobambos, Thyrsostachys".
***Subtribe Chusqueinae
***:Comprises 2 genera: "Chusquea, Neurolepis".
***Subtribe Guaduinae
***:Comprises 5 genera: "Criciuma, Eremocaulon, Guadua, Olmeca, Otatea".
***Subtribe Melocanninae
***:Comprises 9 genera: "Cephalostachyum, Davidsea, Leptocanna, Melocanna, Neohouzeaua, Ochlandra, Pseudostachyum, Schizostachyum, Teinostachyum".
***Subtribe Nastinae
***:Comprises 6 genera: "Decaryochloa, Greslania, Hickelia, Hitchcockella, Nastus, Perrierbambus".
***Subtribe Racemobambodinae
***:Comprises one genus: "Racemobambos" ("Neomicrocalamus, Vietnamosasa")
***Subtribe Shibataeinae
***:Comprises 8 genera: "Chimonobambusa, Indosasa, Phyllostachys, Qiongzhuea, Semiarundianria" ("Brachystachyum"), "Shibataea, Sinobambusa, Temburongia" (incertae sedis).
**Tribe Guaduelleae
**:There is one genus: "Guaduella".
**Tribe Puelieae
**:There is one genus: "Puelia".

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