Rhipidocladum

Rhipidocladum is a genus of New World woody bamboo in the grass family. It is found in Mesoamerica, Trinidad, and South America. The genus is characterized by having erect, non-pseudopetiolate culm leaves, numerous branchlets arising in an aspidate (fan-like) array, and by having true caryopses as fruit. The name is derived from the Greek rhipid meaning "fanlike" and clad meaning "branch".

Species

22 species are accepted.

• Rhipidocladum abregoense – Colombia (Norte de Santander)
• Rhipidocladum ampliflorum – Venezuela
• Rhipidocladum angustiflorum – Colombia, Venezuela
• Rhipidocladum arenicola – Peru
• Rhipidocladum barbinode – Mexico (Nayarit to Guerrero)
• Rhipidocladum bartlettii – Mexico (Chiapas, Yucatán Peninsula), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras
• Rhipidocladum clarkiae – Costa Rica
• Rhipidocladum cordatum – Ecuador
• Rhipidocladum harmonicum – from southern Mexico to Bolivia
• Rhipidocladum martinezii – Mexico (Chiapas)
• Rhipidocladum maxonii – Costa Rica, Guyana
• Rhipidocladum neumannii – Argentina (Salta, Tucumán), Bolivia (La Paz, Santa Cruz, Tarija)
• Rhipidocladum pacuarense – Nicaragua, Costa Rica
• Rhipidocladum panamense – Panamá
• Rhipidocladum parviflorum – Venezuela, Colombia, Perú, Bolivia, Brazil, Panamá
• Rhipidocladum pittieri – from Mexico (Michoacán) to Panamá
• Rhipidocladum prestoei – Trinidad
• Rhipidocladum racemiflorum – Mexico from Tucumán to Tamaulipas
• Rhipidocladum rubrofimbriatum – Venezuela
• Rhipidocladum sibilans – Venezuela, Guyana
• Rhipidocladum singuliflorum – Mexico (Jalisco)
• Rhipidocladum zoqueorum – Mexico (Chiapas)

Formerly included

See Actinocladum and Didymogonyx

• Rhipidocladum geminatum = Didymogonyx geminatum
• Rhipidocladum longispiculatum = Didymogonyx longispiculatum
• Rhipidocladum verticillatum = Actinocladum verticillatum

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