Bambusa
Bambusa is a medium to large size bamboo genus, and very popular among growers and cultivators. They are usually very strong and have thick culm walls, with small branches and small leaves.
Cephalostachyum
The genus Cephalostachyum is a primitive tropical and subtropical bamboo. Species of this bamboo grow in dense clumps with thin-walled weak culms.
Chimonobambusa
Bamboo species of the genus Chimonobambusa are running bamboos with swollen nodes that bear thorns in many species, they have 3 branches at the nodes.
Chusquea
Bamboo species of the genus Chusquea are mountain clumping bamboos native to the tropics and subtropics of South and Central America. Unlike most other bamboos, the stems of Chusquea species are solid, not hollow.
Dendrocalamus
Bamboo species of the genus Dendrocalamus are large clump-forming subtropical bamboos with large branches and leaves, and are usually tick-walled. Most species prefer high humidity and mountain areas.
Fargesia
Bamboo species of the genus Fargesia are medium to small mountain clumping bamboos, found in the alpine conifer forests of East Asia (China, Vietnam, and Burma). In China they are known as 'jian zhu' (arrow bamboo).
Gigantochloa
Gigantochloa is a tropical genus of giant clumping bamboo, similar to the genus Bambusa. Bamboo species of this genus grow native in South and South-East Asia: Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, Philippines, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China, India, and Bangladesh.
Guadua
The genus Guadua contains the largest bamboos in tropical America. Stems can reach up to 30 m in height and to 20 cm in diameter. The name Guadua (pronounced 'gua-du-a') comes from the common name used by the people of Colombia.
Himalayacalamus
Bamboos species of the genus Himalayacalamus are temperate mountain clumping bamboos. They are found growing at lower altitudes of the Himalaya; India, Nepal, Bhutan, and China.
Indocalamus
Bamboo species of the genus Indocalamus are native to China, Japan, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. The name Indocalamus derives from the Latin words "indo", of India (in its ancient sense: extending from the East Indies to China), and "calamus" (Greek: kalamos) reed.
Nastus
Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboo. It comprises of 12 species, mainly found in the tropical mountain forests of the Southern Hemisphere from Madagascar and Réunion to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
Otatea
Otatea is a genus of clumping bamboos native to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and possibly Nicaragua and Costa Rica as well. The name derives from the nahuatl otatl, meaning "bamboo".
Phyllostachys
Phyllostachys comes from 'phyllon', meaning leaf, and 'stachys', meaning spike. In China, where this bamboo grows native, it is also called Gangzhu Shu, meaning firm bamboo genus.
Pseudosasa
20 bamboo species are currently assigned to the genus Pseudosasa. These bamboos are small to medium running bamboo, originating in Japan, China, and Korea.
Schizostachyum
Bamboo species of the genus Schizostachyum are tall or shrub-like tropical clumping, and sometimes climbing bamboos. They grow native in the tropical and subtropical regions from Madagascar to the Pacific Islands with South-East Asia as the centre of distribution.
Semiarundinaria
Semiarundinaria is a genus of tall or shrubby running bamboos. The species are found in temperate and subtropical regions of China and Japan.
Thamnocalamus
Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo. The generic name, derives from the Greek "thamnos" (thicket, shrubbery), and "kalamos" (Latinised "calamus", reed, cane), referring to the habit of the species.
Yushania
Bamboo species form the genus Yushania are spreading temperate to subtropical bamboos, native from the Himalayas to Taiwan and the Philippines. They also occur in Southeast Africa and Madagascar.