Nastus
Genus of grasses
title: "Nastus" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bambusoideae-genera", "flora-of-the-indomalayan-realm", "flora-of-papuasia", "flora-of-the-western-indian-ocean", "bambusoideae"] description: "Genus of grasses" topic_path: "geography/india" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastus" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary Genus of grasses ::
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- Stemmatospermum P.Beauv.
- Oreiostachys Gamble
Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family. It is native to Southeast Asia, Papuasia, and certain islands in the Indian Ocean (Madagascar and Réunion).
;Species
- Nastus ambrensis A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus aristatus A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus borbonicus J.F. Gmel. - Réunion
- Nastus decaryanus A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus elatoides Widjaja - New Guinea
- Nastus elatus Holttum - Papua New Guinea
- Nastus elegantissimus (Hassk.) Holttum - Thailand, Vietnam, Java, Sumatra
- Nastus elongatus A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus emirnensis (Baker) A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus glaucus Widjaja - New Guinea
- Nastus holttumianus Bor - western New Guinea
- Nastus hooglandii Holttum - Papua New Guinea
- Nastus humbertianus A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus lokohoensis A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus longispicula Holttum - Papua New Guinea
- Nastus madagascariensis A.Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus manongarivensis A.Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus obtusus Holttum - New Guinea
- Nastus perrieri A. Camus - Madagascar
- Nastus productus (Pilg.) Holttum - New Guinea
- Nastus reholttumianus Soenarko - Sumba Island in Indonesia
- Nastus rudimentifer Holttum - New Guinea
- Nastus schlechteri (Pilg.) Holttum - New Guinea
- Nastus schmutzii S. Dransf. - Flores Island in Indonesia
- Nastus tsaratananensis A. Camus - Madagascar ;formerly included see Arundinaria, Bambusa, Cathariostachys, Cenchrus, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Guadua, Melocanna, and * Thamnocalamus*
- N. arundinaceus - Bambusa bambos
- N. baccifera - Melocanna baccifera
- N. barbatus - Guadua tagoara
- N. brunneus - Chusquea baculifera
- N. capitatus - Cathariostachys capitata
- N. carolinianus - Cenchrus spinifex
- N. chusque - Chusquea scandens
- N. guadua - Guadua angustifolia
- N. latifolius - Guadua latifolia
- N. macrospermus - Arundinaria gigantea
- N. prolifer - Chusquea quila
- N. quila - Chusquea quila
- N. strictus - Dendrocalamus strictus
- N. tessellatus - Thamnocalamus tessellatus
- N. thouarsii - Bambusa vulgaris
- N. tjankorreh - Dinochloa scandens
- N. verticillatus - Gigantochloa verticillata
- N. viviparus - Bambusa vulgaris
References
References
- [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=425605 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5437268#page/129/mode/1up Jussieu, Antoine Laurent de. 1789. Genera Plantarum 34] in Latin
- [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40025402 Tropicos, ''Nastus'' Juss.]
- Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world: annotated nomenclature and literature of the species and the higher and lower taxa. Bamboos World 1–585
- [http://www.theplantlist.org/browse/A/Poaceae/Nastus/ The Plant List]
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