Melocanna

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Melocanna
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Poales
Family: Poaceae
Subfamily: Bambusoideae
Tribe: Bambuseae
Subtribe: Melocanninae
Genus: Melocanna
Trin.
Type species
Melocanna bambusoides
(syn of M. baccifera) [1]
Synonyms

BeeshaKunth

Melocanna is a genus of Asian clumping bamboo in the grass family. [2] [3]

The 48-year cycle of M. baccifera in northeastern India is responsible for the phenomenon called " mautam " or "bamboo death", in which large populations of bamboo flower at the same time, this being followed by a plague of rats, which in turn triggers a famine within the human populations.

Species [1] [4]
  1. Melocanna arundina C.E.ParkinsonThailand, Myanmar; naturalized in parts of southern China
  2. Melocanna baccifera (Roxb.) Kurz - Nagaland, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Assam, Mizoram, Manipur, Bangladesh, Myanmar; sparingly naturalized in parts of West Indies and South America
Formerly included [1]

see Bambusa, Cephalostachyum, Gigantochloa, Nastus, Ochlandra , and Schizostachyum

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