ABSTRACT
About 7-9/12 species, southern and southwestern India, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka; Sri Lanka; Madagascar. Bambusoideae, Bambusodae, Bambuseae, or Bambusoideae, Bambuseae, Melocanninae, perennial, woody, sympodial, erect, shrubby, caespitose, culms more or less closely spaced, unarmed, reedlike, persistent, gregarious, small, thin-walled, flowering culms leafy, rhizomes pachymorph, ligule a short unfringed membrane, leaf blades erect or reflexed, plants bisexual, spikelets narrowly conical and 1-flowered, bracts subtending primary pseudo-spikelets, 25 or few to several glumes subequal, transitional glumes, palea rounded, 1-15 free and membranous lodicules, 15120 stamens, long ovary appendage, 3-8 stigmas, fruit with fleshy pericarp, used for basketry and mat-making, leaves used for thatching, usually forming dense and impenetrable thickets, wet lowlands, dry forests, undergrowth, rainforest, in forest, hillsides, lower montane areas, along streams and riverbanks, evergreen and semievergreen forests, type
Ochlandra stridula
Moon ex Thwaites, see
Journal de Physique, de Chimie, d’Histoire Naturelle et des Arts
95: 151. 1822, George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (1812-1882) and Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) [Collaborator: William Ferguson, 1820-1887],
Enumeratio plantarum zeylaniae: An Enumeration of Ceylon Plants
. 5: 376. London [1858-] 1864,
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London
26: 144. 1868,
The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India
239, t. 234. Madras [1869-1874],
Annals of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta
. 7: 125. 1896 and
Bull. de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon
9: 185-188. 1945,
Taxon
6(7): 201. 1957,
Agriculture Handbook
193: i-iii, 1-74. 1961,
Smithson. Contr. Bot.
