Sasa

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.

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 – kumazasa

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