STINGER'S BAMBOO LINKS AND INFORMATION

This page has recently moved. Remember to bookmark the new location. I have done research on bamboos for several years and have accumulated a wealth of sundry data on bamboos during that time. Below are some ofthe links that I have found and used as well as some original information that I have generated over the years. Much of my bamboo work has been financed by various members and chapters of the American Bamboo Society, especially the Caribbean Chapter, and I am grateful for the assistance.  This page was originally set up as a links page but the tremendous growth in the web (CLICK HERE to see a graph of the growth of bamboo sites on the web) and much improved search engines along with preview software such as Web Turbo have made searching a better way to find specific information on bamboos.    Thus, I will be deemphasizing the links here and attempting to provide more original content and a few links that may not show up in searches or that may not occur to the amateur to search for.  I get a lot of email asking how to get rid of bamboo and what bamboo grows best in a particular area. The best answer to both of these questions is to ask a bamboo grower in your local area.  The American Bamboo Society Homepage  is an excellent place to find one.  There is also a long term discussion on the subject at the Garden Mart.
 
 

Some interesting bamboo links to miscellaneous things that you may not have seen.  Relatively recent stuff (I rotate this often so bookmark NOW).

Tabasheer - A report by Heather Newman, an Advanced Academic Intern with me from the Miami Dade County School System.

Pictures of Bamboos and Basal Grasses

Click here for a simplified cladogram of the relationships of the grass subfamilies to each other.  This is only a diagram of core relationships.  Not all genera have been examined and some of the subfamilies shown here appear not to be monophyletic as traditionally circumscribed.

NEW Here are some Ultra-high resolution photos of herbarium specimens of Bamboos. These are part of the Virtual Bamboo Herbarium Project here at Fairchild Tropical Garden and in cooperation with Iowa State University. You can zoom in to about 5X on these specimens quickly. Try the Java option.

Basal Grasses (Anomochlooideae & Pharoideae)

Bambusoideae

Herbaceous Bamboos (Olyreae)


Woody Bamboos (Bambusodae)

Flowers


Anatomy


General

Apoclada simplex Cacador, Brazil 1990.
Apoclada arenicola Near Parque Nacional das Emas, Brazil 1990.
Apoclada arenicola Branch Complement - Near Parque Nacional das Emas, Brazil 1990.
 
 

My  bamboo and basal grasses publications include:

Guala, G.F. 1992.
All about Apoclada (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) a monograph of the genus.
Thesis presented to the Graduate School of theUniversity of Florida.

Guala, G.F. 1993. A phylogenetic revision of the the genus Apoclada (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) Abstract, American Journal of Botany 80(6):151.

Guala, G.F. 1995. A cladistic analysis and revision of the the genus Apoclada (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) Systematic Botany 20(3): 207-223.

Guala, G.F. 1995. Cyanogenesis in the bamboos: a phylogenetic perspective.
Journal of the American Bamboo Society 10(1&2;): 1-7.

Guala, G.F. (2000). Spatial habitat characterization and predictions for two endemic sister species of bamboo on the cerrados of central Brazil. Bamboo Science and Culture 14:(1): 21-27.

Guala, G.F., D. Bogler, J. Sadle and J. Francisco-Ortega (2000). Molecular Evidence for polyphyly in the Genus Apoclada (Poaceae: Bambusoideae). Bamboo Science and Culture 14:(1): 15-20.

Grass Phylogeny Working Group. (2000). A phylogeny of the grass family (Poaceae), as inferred from eight character sets. In SW.L. Jacobs and J. Everett [eds.] Proceedings. 2nd International conference on Comparative Biology of Monocotyledons, Sydney, Australia 1998 CSIRO, Victoria.

Grass Phylogeny Working Group. (In Press). Phylogeny and subfamilial classification of the Poaceae.
Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden.

Judziewicz, E. and G.F. Guala  (in press). Pharus in M. Barkworth et al. eds. Manual of North American Grasses. Agricultural Research Service, USDA. Beltsville, MD

LINKS


*The American Bamboo Society Homepage
The European Bamboo Society Homepage
*Australian Bamboo Network
*The Bamboo Web
*RBERG's Bamboo Page
 

USDA/APHIS REGULATIONS

*APHIS Homepage
*Quarantine Restrictions for Bamboo From the American Bamboo Society Homepage.The most pragmatic and informative document on the subject.(Down for themoment, Go to the ABS page to find it, maybe)

LITERATURE

Did you know that Phyllostachys is also a section of the large sedgegenus Carex?
Did you know that Lepidisis olapa is called the Bamboo Coral?
 

*Burt Associates Bamboo Mini Guide Includes lots of good pictures.
*Wim Masman's Bamboo Synonyms An extensive reference, particularly good for cross referencing misspelled synonym citations, a good starting point for inquiries into the synonomy of particular names, especially of cultivated species.
*Jean Dupin's Bamboo Bibliographie Brief but worth a look.
 

Search engines for names

*TROPICOS (a database of plant names with citations) This is where the citations of the original publications of most bamboo (and many other plants) names (especially those of the New World) will be found.

*The Gray Herbarium Card Index This is where the citations of the original publications of many bamboo (and many other plants) names (especially thoseof the New World) will be found. It is the electronic version of the standard card index that herbaria have been using for many years.
 MISC

*Bamboo Flowering. Have you seen any?