Short-spiked bamboo

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Short-spiked bamboo
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Liliopsida Order: Poales Family: Poaceae Subfamily: Bambusoideae Supertribe: Bambusodae Tribe: Bambuseae Subtribe: Shibataeinae Genus: Brachystachyum Keng Species: B. densiflorum
Binomial name
Brachystachyum densiflorum (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".

[edit] 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.