Otatea

12 Species

Otatea is a genus of clumping bamboos native to Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras and Mexico. The name derives from the nahuatl otatl, meaning "bamboo". The genus comprises 12 species, of which the best-known is of the Mexican weeping bamboo (Otatea acuminata).

Otatea bamboo grows on the Pacific slopes, from Sonora through the Central Plateau and Transversal Volcanic Ridge, locally in ravines in low deciduous forest of the slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental in Chihuahua (except in arid and semiarid regions and mountain tops), and on the slopes of the Gulf of Mexico to Central America between 200 and 2,000 m altitude.

Otatea Species List

Species	Origin	Diameter	Height
Otatea acuminata	Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southwest	∅ 25 mm	⇑ 10 m
Otatea carrilloi	Mexico Southeast	∅ 35 mm	⇑ 5 m
Otatea colombiana	Colombia
Otatea fimbriata	Colombia, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico Southeast	∅ 40 mm	⇑ 6 m
Otatea glauca	Mexico Southeast	∅ 30 mm	⇑ 8 m
Otatea nayeeri	Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest
Otatea ramirezii	Mexico Northeast	∅ 17 mm	⇑ 3 m
Otatea reynosoana	Mexico Southwest	∅ 9 mm	⇑ 6 m
Otatea rzedowskiorum	Mexico Southeast
Otatea transvolcanica	Mexico Central, Mexico Southwest	∅ 60 mm	⇑ 8 m
Otatea victoriae	Mexico Northeast
Otatea ximenae	Mexico Southwest	∅ 10 mm	⇑ 3 m

Source: Kew Science

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