The Restionaceae, also called restiads and restios, are a family of flowering plants native to the Southern Hemisphere; they vary from a few centimeters to 3 meters in height. Following the APG IV (2016): the family now includes the former families Anarthriaceae, Centrolepidaceae and Lyginiaceae, and as such includes 51 genera with 572 known species. Based on evidence from fossil pollen, the Restionaceae likely originated more than 65 million years ago during the Late Cretaceous period, when the southern continents were still part of Gondwana.
Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family. These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.
Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie was a French botanist who specialized in the plants of Madagascar.
Cephalostachyum is a genus of Asian and Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
Ochlandra is a genus of Indian bamboo in the grass family).
Decaryochloa is a genus of Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
Hickelia is a genus of African bamboo in the grass family.
- Hickelia africanaS.Dransf. - Tanzania
- Hickelia alaotrensisA.Camus - Madagascar
- Hickelia madagascariensisA.Camus - Madagascar
- Hickelia perrieri(A.Camus) S.Dransf. - Madagascar
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.
Perrierbambus is a genus of Madagascan bamboo in the grass family.
The greater bamboo lemur, also known as the broad-nosed bamboo lemur and the broad-nosed gentle lemur, is a species of lemur endemic to the island of Madagascar.
Giant bamboo is a common name for several large species of bamboo and may refer to:
Cathariostachys madagascariensis, the Madagascar giant bamboo or volohosy in Malagasy language, is a bamboo species found in Madagascar.
C. madagascariensis may refer to:
C. madagascariense may refer to:
Valiha is a bamboo genus in the tribe Bambuseae found in Madagascar. The genus is named after a musical instrument, the valiha, which was formerly constructed from the culms of this plant.
John Dransfield is former head of palm research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, United Kingdom.
Sirochloa is a genus of bamboo in the grass family.
Soejatmi Dransfield is an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and currently honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK.
The Sambirano region, also known as the Sambirano domain, is a biogeographic region of northwestern Madagascar. It has a distinctive lowland climate with year-round rain, differing from the rest of seasonally-dry western and northern Madagascar. The climate supports humid lowland rainforests, with greater similarity to those of eastern Madagascar than the dry deciduous forests characteristic of the Madagascar's western lowlands.
