Cryptochloa Swallen

Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo, Clark, Lynn G., Londoño, Ximena, Mejía-Saulés, Teresa & Rodríguez, Gilberto Cortés, 2015, Morphological keys to the genera and species of bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae) of Mexico, Phytotaxa 236 (1), pp. 1-24 : 19-20

Cryptochloa Swallen

Herbaceous, monoecious and cespitose plants; culms monomorph with several nodes, erect; leaves short petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous and sometimes abaxially purple; synflorescences terminal, racemose, with 5–10 staminate spikelets and one pistillate spikelet; axillary synflorescences paniculiform or racemiform, bisexual with 2–5 pistillate spikelets and 5–20 staminate spikelets.

1 species in Mexico: Cryptochloa strictiflora . Mexico to Ecuador; Chiapas, Oaxaca, Veracruz; 0–500 m ( Fig.

8C–D).

Figures

FIGURE 8. A–B, Olyra latifolia. A. Synflorescence and flowers. B. Foliage leaves. C–D. Cryptocholoa strictiflora. C. Leaf blades, abaxial view, showing purple color. D. Complete plant. E–F. Lithachne pauciflora. E. Female (above) and male (below) spikelets. F. Leaf blades, adaxial view. Photos by E. Ruiz-Sanchez.