Schizostachyum is a tall or shrub-like tropical genus of bamboo.Nees von Esenbeck, Christian Gottfried Daniel. 1829. Flora Brasiliensis seu Enumeratio Plantarum 2(1): 535 in LatinTropicos, Schizostachyum Nees They are natives mostly of tropical Asia and Papuasia, with a few species in Madagascar and on certain islands in the Pacific.Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 50 岭南竹属 si lao zhu shu Schizostachyum Nees in Martius et al. A few have become naturalized in other tropical regions.Soreng, R. J. 2000. Schizostachyum. In Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 39: 112
Description The genus name comes from Greek ("cleft") and ("spike"), referring to the spacing of spikelets.
These are clumping, sometimes climbing woody bamboos, with terete culm-internodes and short, thick (pachymorph), perennial rhizomes.
Species The following are included in Plants of the World Online:Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant FamiliesPlants of the World Online: Schizostachyum Nees (retrieved 14 March 2021)
formerly included see Bambusa Cephalostachyum Cyrtochloa Dendrocalamus Dinochloa Eremocaulon Gigantochloa Nastus Neohouzeaua Pseudostachyum Pseudoxytenanthera Sirochloa
Some also include the genus Leptocanna in this genus.
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