Otatea Explained
Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.[1] [2] [3]
The name derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "otatl", meaning "bamboo".
- Species[4] [3] [5] [6]
- Otatea acuminata (Munro) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr. – widespread from Chihuahua to Oaxaca
- Otatea carrilloi Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés – Chiapas
- Otatea fimbriata Soderstr. – widespread from Norte de Santander to Chiapas
- Otatea glauca L.G.Clark & G.Cortés – Chiapas
- Otatea ramirezii Ruiz-Sanchez – Querétaro[7]
- Otatea reynosoana Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit
- Otatea rzedowskiorum Ruiz-Sanchez – Chiapas
- Otatea transvolcanica Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – México State, Jalisco, Colima
- Otatea victoriae Ruiz-Sanchez – Hidalgo
- Otatea ximenae Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Oaxaca, Michoacán
Notes and References
- Calderón, Cléofe E. & Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1980. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 44: 21
- http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036497 Tropicos, Otatea (McClure & E.W. Sm.) C.E. Calderón & Soderstr.
- Ruiz-Sanchez, E., V. Sosa, M. T. Mejía-Saules, X. Londoño & L. G. Clark. 2011. A taxonomic revision of Otatea (Poaceae, Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) including four new species. Systematic Botany 36(2): 314–336.
- http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do;jsessionid=7D9841F90926E360C3F227A58371B614?name_id=426911 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas: una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236 [and index].
- Ruiz-Sanchez, E., 2015. Parametric and non-parametric species delimitation methods result in the recognition of two new Neotropical woody bamboo species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93, pp.261–273.
- Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo. 2012. Acta Botánica Mexicana 99: 25, figure 1