Chusquea

• Authority

  Acevedo-Rodríguez, Pedro. 2005. Vines and climbing plants of Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 51: 1-483.

• Family

  Poaceae

• Scientific Name

  Chusquea

• Description

  Description - Small or medium-sized bamboos. Culms elongate, erect, arcuate or scandent, cylindrical, lignified, solid or occasionally hollow, with numerous branches per node. Leaves of the culm different from those of the branches; foliaceous leaves with internal and external ligules; leaf sheath lacking setose appendages. Inflorescences terminal, of panicles or less frequently racemes. Spikelets lanceolate or ovate, short-ari state or not aristate, with numerous flowers; glumes 2, short; 2 basal flowers sterile; distal flowers bisexual; palea bicarinate; stamens 3; stigmas 2. About 150 species, distributed from Mexico to Chile and Argentina, including the Antilles.