arundo
{{Short description|Genus of grasses}}
{{Automatic taxobox
|image = Arundo.donax1web.jpg
|image_caption = Giant cane (Arundo donax)
|display_parents = 2
|taxon = Arundo
|type_species_authority = L.lectotype designated by Hitchcock, Prop. Brit. Bot. 121 (1929)
|type_species = Arundo donax
|synonyms_ref = [http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/synonomy.do?name_id=451090 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]
|synonyms =
- Donax P.Beauv. 1812, illegitimate homonym not Lour. 1790
- Eudonax Fr.
- Scolochloa Mert. & W.D.J.Koch
- Amphidonax Nees
- Donacium Fr.
}}
Arundo is a genus of stout, perennial plants in the grass family.
Description
Arundo is native to southern Europe, North Africa, and much of temperate Asia as far east as Japan.{{cite web|url= http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/arundo.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world and local distribution, and references |access-date=2009-08-19 |author=Watson L, Dallwitz MJ. |year=2008 |work=The Grass Genera of the World }} They grow to 3–6 m tall, occasionally to 10 m, with leaves 30–60 cm long and 3–6 cm broad.
; Species[http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/search?q=Arundo The Plant List search for Arundo]
- Arundo collina Ten.
- Arundo donax L. – Giant cane, Spanish cane (south and east Mediterranean, to India; naturalised in many additional areas and often invasive)
- Arundo formosana Hack. – Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Philippines
- Arundo mediterranea Danin – Mediterranean
- Arundo micrantha Lam. – Mediterranean
- Arundo plinii Turra – Pliny's reed – Greece, Italy, Albania, Croatia
There are over 200 species once considered part of Arundo but now regarded as better suited to other genera: Achnatherum, Agrostis, Ammophila, Ampelodesmos, Arthrostylidium, Arundinaria, Austroderia, Bambusa, Calamagrostis, Calammophila, Calamovilfa, Chionochloa, Chusquea, Cinna, Cortaderia, Dendrocalamus, Deschampsia, Dupontia, Gastridium, Gigantochloa, Graphephorum, Gynerium, Imperata, Indocalamus, Melica, Miscanthus, Molinia, Muhlenbergia, Neyraudia, Phalaris, Phragmites, Poa, Psammochloa, Rytidosperma, Saccharum, Schizostachyum, Scolochloa, Stipa, Thysanolaena, Trisetaria.
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Arundo}}
{{Wikispecies}}
- [http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/splist.pl?1020 Germplasm Resources Information Network: Arundo]
- [http://www.erowid.org/plants/arundo_donax/arundo_donax.shtml Erowid Arundo Donax vault]
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