Olmeca

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title: "Olmeca" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bambusoideae-genera", "flora-of-mexico", "flora-of-honduras", "flora-of-the-neotropical-realm", "bambusoideae"] description: "Genus of grasses" topic_path: "geography/mexico" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmeca" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of grasses ::

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| image = Olmeca recta imported from iNaturalist photo 65579308 on 26 December 2023.jpg | image_caption = Olmeca recta | display_parents = 3 | taxon = Olmeca | authority = Soderstr. 1982 | type_species_authority = Soderstr. 1982 | type_species = Olmeca reflexa | synonyms_ref = | synonyms = *Olmeca Soderstr. 1981, not validly published|

Olmeca is a genus of Mesoamerican bamboo in the grass family.

Olmeca is the only known New World bamboo having large fleshy fruits. It also has rhizomes with long necks and very open clumps.

The genus is named for the Olmec peoples of southern Mexico, who thrived in southern Mexico in the first millennium BCE.

;Species

• Olmeca clarkiae (Davidse & R.W.Pohl) Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés - Chiapas, Honduras
• Olmeca fulgor (Soderstr.) Ruiz-Sanchez - Oaxaca
• Olmeca recta Soderstr. - Veracruz
• Olmeca reflexa Soderstr. - Veracruz, Oaxaca, Chiapas
• Olmeca zapotecorum Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés - Oaxaca

References

References

1. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036508 Tropicos, ''Olmeca'' Soderstr.]
2. [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13039175#page/171/mode/1up Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1982. Phytologia 51(2): 161.]
3. Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1981. American Journal of Botany 68: 1361-1373
4. Diehl, Richard. (2004). "The Olmecs: America's First Civilization". [[Thames & Hudson]].
5. [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=426139 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
6. Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo, Sosa, Victoria, & Mejía-Saules, M. Teresa. 2011. Molecular phylogenetics of the Mesoamerican bamboo ''Olmeca'' (Poaceae, Bambuseae): Implications for taxonomy. Taxon 60(1): 89–98.
7. Soreng, R. J., G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, E. J. Judziewicz, T. S. Filgueiras & O. Morrone. 2003 and onwards. On-line taxonomic novelties and updates, distributional additions and corrections, and editorial changes since the four published volumes of the Catalogue of New World Grasses (Poaceae) published in Contributions from the United States National Herbarium vols. 39, 41, 46, and 48. http://www.tropicos.org/Project/CNWG:. In R. J. Soreng, G. Davidse, P. M. Peterson, F. O. Zuloaga, T. S. Filgueiras, E. J. Judziewicz & O. Morrone (eds.), Internet Catalogue of New World Grasses. Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis

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