Otatea

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Genus of grasses

title: "Otatea" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["bambusoideae", "grasses-of-north-america", "bambusoideae-genera"] description: "Genus of grasses" topic_path: "general/bambusoideae" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otatea" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Genus of grasses ::

|name = Weeping bamboo |image = Otatea acuminata whole.jpg |image_caption = Mexican weeping bamboo (Otatea aztecorum) |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Otatea |authority = (McClure & E.W.Sm.) C.E.Calderón & Soderstr. |synonyms_ref = |synonyms = *Yushania subgenus Otatea McClure & E.W.Sm.

Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.

The name derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "otatl", meaning "bamboo".

;Species

  1. Otatea acuminata (Munro) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr. – widespread from Chihuahua to Oaxaca
  2. Otatea carrilloi Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés – Chiapas
  3. Otatea fimbriata Soderstr. – widespread from Norte de Santander to Chiapas
  4. Otatea glauca L.G.Clark & G.Cortés – Chiapas
  5. Otatea ramirezii Ruiz-Sanchez – Querétaro
  6. Otatea reynosoana Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit
  7. Otatea rzedowskiorum Ruiz-Sanchez – Chiapas
  8. Otatea transvolcanica Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – México State, Jalisco, Colima
  9. Otatea victoriae Ruiz-Sanchez – Hidalgo
  10. Otatea ximenae Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Oaxaca, Michoacán

References

References

  1. [http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=43034-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Bjsessionid%3D9D48A9CD4480535A7E4031FCFB09A11F%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DOtatea%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3Dgen%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal The International Plant Names Index]
  2. Calderón, Cléofe E. & Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1980. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 44: 21
  3. [http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036497 Tropicos, ''Otatea'' (McClure & E.W. Sm.) C.E. Calderón & Soderstr.]
  4. Ruiz-Sanchez, E., V. Sosa, M. T. Mejía-Saules, X. Londoño & L. G. Clark. 2011. A taxonomic revision of ''Otatea'' (Poaceae, Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) including four new species. Systematic Botany 36(2): 314–336.
  5. [https://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do;jsessionid=7D9841F90926E360C3F227A58371B614?name_id=426911 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
  6. Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236 [and index].
  7. Ruiz-Sanchez, E., 2015. Parametric and non-parametric species delimitation methods result in the recognition of two new Neotropical woody bamboo species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93, pp.261–273.
  8. Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo. 2012. Acta Botánica Mexicana 99: 25, figure 1

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