Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. It includes 12 species native to Madagascar and Réunion.

The genus was erected by French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789.

Species

12 species are accepted.

Formerly included

See Arundinaria, Bambusa, Cathariostachys, Cenchrus, Chloothamnus, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Guadua, Melocanna, Ruhooglandia, Thamnocalamus, and Widjajachloa.

References

External links

• Bor, N. L. (1972) A new species of

• The Archives of the Rare Fruit Council of Australia

• Camus, A. 1937.