Acidase

Acidosasa is a genus of herbaceous plants of the bamboo tribe in the family Poaceae. It includes numerous species native to China and Indochina, sometimes cultivated by its edible shoots. It comprises 27 described species and of these, only 11 accepted.

Description

They are shrubby perennials (with edible, sour young shoots). Green leafy flower stalks. Culms 300-800 cm tall; woody and persistent; branched above. Culm-sheaths deciduous in their entirety. Disarmed plants. Basal leaves not aggregated. Broad-leaved blades (big); pseudopetiolate. Plants bisexual, with bisexual spikelets; with hermaphrodite flowers. The inflorescence in a single raceme, or paniculate.

Taxonomy

Acidosase was described by C.D.Chu & C.S. Chao ex Keng f. and published in Journal of Bamboo Research 1(2): 31. 1982. The type species is: Acidosasa chinensis C.D.Chu & C.S. Chao

Etymology

Acidosase generic name from the Latin acidum (sour) and Sasa (another genus of bamboo), referring to the edible shoots.

Accepted species

The following is a list of the species of the genus Acidosasa accepted up to November 2013, arranged alphabetically. For each one, the binomial name followed by the author is indicated, abbreviated according to conventions and uses.

• Acidosasa breviclavata W.T.Lin
• Acidosasa brilletii (A.Camus) C.S.Chao & S.A.Renvoize
• Acidosasa Chineseuensis (T.H.Wen) C.S.Chao & T.H.Wen
• Acidosasa chinensis C.D.Chu & C.S.Chao
• Acidosasa edulis (Wen) T.H.Wen
• Acidosasa guangxiensis Q.H.Dai & C.F.Huang
• Acidosasa lingchuanensis (C.D. Chu & C.S. Chao) Q.Z.Xie & X.Y.Chen
• Acidosasa nanunica (McClude)C.S.Chao & G.Yang
• Acidosasa notata (Z.P.Wang & G.H.Ye) S.S.You
• Acidossa purpurea (Hsueh & Yi) P.C.Keng
• Acidosasa venusta (McClure) Z.P.Wang & G.H.Ye