Other conspecific taxa:

• Chusquea culeou f. culeou (0 accessions)
• Chusquea culeou f. longiramea (1 accessions)

Common names:

• colihue  (Source: pers. comm.) - Spanish (Chile)

Economic Importance:

• Environmental: ornamental (fide Eur Gard F; Dict Gard; Bamboo World)
• Materials: cane ()
• Materials: potential as fiber (for boards fide Forest Syst 19:242. 2010)

Distributional Range:

Native

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Argentina, [Chubut, Neuquen, Rio Negro] Chile [La Araucania, Los Lagos]


Cultivated

Southern America

• SOUTHERN SOUTH AMERICA: Chile

References:

1. Clark, L. G. 2011. pers. comm. (pers. comm.)
2. Correa, M. N. Flora patagonica. (F Patag)
3. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992 (Dict Gard)
4. Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Flora del Conosur. Catálogo de las plantas vasculares. (F ConoSur)
5. Judziewicz, E. J. et al. 2000. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae): I. Subfamilies Anomochlooideae, Bambusoideae, Ehrhartoideae, and Pharoideae Contr. U.S. Natl. Herb. 39:39.
6. Marchesini, V. et al. 2009. Ecological consequences of a massive flowering event of bamboo (Chusquea culeou) in a temperate forest of Patagonia, Argentina J. Veg. Sci. 20:424-432.
7. Moreno, P. A. et al. 2010. Use of Guadua angustifolia stems in the particleboard production Forest Syst. 19:241-248.
8. Ohrnberger, D. The bamboos of the world. (Bamboo World)
9. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). (Pl Names)
10. Walters, S. M. et al., eds. European garden flora. (Eur Gard F)

Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System. 2018. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN-Taxonomy).
National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland. URL: https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxonomydetail.aspx?10523. Accessed 23 April 2018.