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Brazil has only recently become known to be the center of bamboo diversity in the new world. The research performed by a
hand full of researchers over the last 20 years has increased the known number of bamboo species found in Brazil from a few
dozen to the most recent figure of 232 distinct species (several of which are still waiting for the naming procedures to be
completed). To say that this number is the final count would be unwise as new species are still being found and identified.
Most of the diversity of species is found along the North-Eastern corner of Brazil. Much of this information is difficult to
access for most people as it has only recently been published in scientific articles and journals. American Bamboos by E.J.
Judziewicz, L.G. Clark, X. Londono and M.J. Stern and published by the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., U.S.A 1999
(several of the people responsible for the research performed over the last few decades) is a great reference book that is the
most extensive volume on this topic to date. T.S. Filgueiras and A.P.S. Goncalves recently published an updated list of currently
known woody bamboo species in Brazil in the 2004 edition of Bamboo Science and Culture: The Journal of the American
Bamboo Society. www.americanbamboo.org/absjournalarchive/absjournal-vol18.pdf.

Actinocladum
verticil/atum.
Alvimia
auriculata
gracilis
lancifolia
Apoclada
simplex
Athrostylidium
fimbrinodum
grandifolium
simpliciusculum
Athroostachys
capitata
Atractantha
amazonica
aureolanata
cardinalis
falcata
radiata
Aulonemia
amplissima
aristulata
effusa
fimbriatifolia
glaziovii
goyazensis
radiata
ramosissima
setigera
ulei
Chusquea
acuminata
anelythra
anelythroides
attenuata
baculifrra
bahiana
bambusoides var. bambusoides
bambusoides var. minor
bradei
caparaoensis
capitata
capituliflora var. Capituliflora
capituliflora var. pubescens
fasciculata
gracilis
heterophylla
ibiramae
juergensii
leptophylla
linearis
longispiculata
meyeriana
microphylla
mimosa subsp. australis
mimosa subsp. mimosa
nudiramea
nutans

Chusquea (cont.)
oligophylla
oxylepis
pinifolia
pulchella
ramosissima
riosaltensis
sclerophylla
sellowii
tenella
tenuiglumis
tenuis
urelythra
wilkeskii
windischii
sp. new 1
Colathelia
burchellii
cingulata
distans
intermedia
lanciflora
macrostachya
rhizantha
sp. new 1
sp. new 2
Elytrostachys
sp. new
Eremocaulon
amazonicum
asymmetricum
aureofimbriatum
capitatum
setosum
Filgueirasia
arenicola
cannavieira
Glaziophyton
Mirabile
Guadua
calderoniana
ciliata
glomerata
latifolia
macrostachya
maculosa
paniculata
paraguayana
refracta
sarcocarpa subsp. sarcocarpa
sarcocarpa subsp. Purpuracea
superba
tagoara
trinii
virgata
sp. new 1-2

Merostachys
abadiana
annulifera
argentea
argyronema
bifurcate
bradei
brevigluma
burmanii
calderoniana
caucaiana
ciliate
clausenii var. clausenii
clausenii var. mollior
exserta
filgueirasii
fimbriata
fisheriana
fistulosa
glauca
kleinii
lanata
latifolia
leptophylla
magellanica
magnispicula
medullosa
multiramea
neesii
petiolata
pilifera
plurijlora
polyantha
procerrima
ramosissima
riedelianana
rondoniensis
scandens
sellovii
skvortzovii
sparsiflora
speciosa
temata
vestita
sp. new 1-9
Myriocladus
      neblinensis
      paludicolus
      virgatus
Neurolepsis
      diversiglumis
Rhipidocladum
      parviflorum