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Oldeania alpina, the African alpine bamboo, [1] is a perennial [3] bamboo of the family Poaceae and the genus Oldeania. [1] It can be found growing in dense but not large stands [ 4 ] on the mountains and volcanoes surrounding the East African Rift [ 1 ] between 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) [ 4 ] and 3,300 meters (11,000 feet) elevation.
Arundinaria is a genus of bamboo in the grass family the members of which are referred to generally as cane. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Arundinaria is the only bamboo native to North America, with a native range from Maryland south to Florida and west to the southern Ohio Valley and Texas .
Arundinarieae is a tribe of bamboo in the grass family containing a single subtribe, Arundinariinae, and 31 genera. [1] These woody bamboos occur in areas with warm temperate climates in southeastern North America, Subsaharan Africa, South Asia and East Asia.
Yushania is a genus of bamboo in the grass family. [4] [5]Recent classification systems place Yushania in the tribe Arundinarieae. [6]The species of Yushania are evergreen, spreading, thornless bamboos native to Himalayan, African, Chinese, and Southeast Asian mountains at moderate to high altitudes, up to 3000 m.
Arundinaria appalachiana, commonly known as hill cane, is a woody bamboo native to the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States. The plant was elevated to the species level in 2006 based on new morphological and genetic information and was previously treated as a variety of Arundinaria tecta .
Arundinaria alabamensis grows from 3–8 ft (0.9–2.4 m) in height, with erect and tillering internodes. [1] The nodes are solitary with one bud per node on a triangular shoulder of the prophyll ciliate. The culm leaves at mid-culm are shorter, but become increasingly longer towards the culm apex. [1]
Arundinaria tecta, or switchcane, [4] is a bamboo species native to the Southeast United States, [4] [5] first studied in 1813. [6] Arundinaria tecta is very similar in appearance to many other Arundinaria species, making it hard to distinguish between species. [7] It serves as host to several butterfly species. [8]
Arundinaria gigantea is a species of bamboo known as giant cane (not to be confused with Arundo donax), river cane, and giant river cane. It is endemic to the south-central and southeastern United States as far west as Oklahoma and Texas and as far north as New York. Giant river cane was economically and culturally important to indigenous ...