Sasa (plant)

Sasa (Japanese: ササ or 笹), also called broad-leaf bamboo,[1] is a genus of running bamboo.[2] These species have at most one branch per node.

Sasa
Sasa palmata foliage in winter
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Monocots
Clade:	Commelinids
Order:	Poales
Family:	Poaceae
Subfamily:	Bambusoideae
Tribe:	Arundinarieae
Subtribe:	Arundinariinae
Genus:	Sasa Makino & Shibata
Selected species
Sasa nipponica Sasa palmata – broadleaf bamboo Sasa tsuboiana etc

Selected species

• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata – northern bamboo,[1] Jirisan bamboo[1]
• Sasa kagamiana
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata – chishimazasa, Kuril bamboo,[1] Korean bamboo[1]
• Sasa nagimontana – muroi
• Sasa nipponica (Makino) Makino & Shibata
• Sasa oshidensis
• Sasa palmata (Burb.) E.G.Camus – broad-leaf bamboo[1]
• Sasa senanensis
• Sasa tsuboiana
• Sasa veitchii – kuma-zasa

Fossil record

Fossil leaves of †Sasa kodorica are described from the Pliocene of Kodori Valley in Abkazia.[3]

See also

• Pseudosasa – another genus of bamboo

References

1. English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. pp. 621–622. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2016 – via Korea Forest Service.
2. Kew. "World Checklist".
3. Acta Palaeobotanica – Supplementum No. 3 – New Fossil Floras from Neogene Deposits in the Belchatow Lignite Mine by Grzegor Worobiec – Polish Academy of Sciences W. Szafer Institute of Botany, Krakow 2003