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  • On land disturbed by agriculture dominants of the secondary forest include Salix humboltiana, Ceiba pentandra and species of Bambusa and Pithecellobium.

    Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve, Honduras 2008

  • Bamboo associates to the north are Melocanna bambusoides, Bambusa polymorpha, Cephalostachyum pergracile, and Bambusa tulda.

    Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests 2008

  • In the lowest areas, bamboo (Bambusa sp.) is abundant along with pioneer trees such as Cecropia spp.,

    Purus varzea 2008

  • The riverbanks are lined with Bambusa arundinaria.

    Eastern highlands moist deciduous forests 2008

  • One ecologically significant species is spiny bamboo (Bambusa arunidinacea),

    Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests 2008

  • Other species are Dinochloa m'clellandi, Oxytenanthera albo-ciliata, Bambusa tulda, Dendrocalamus longispathus, Cephalostachyum pergracile, and Bambusa polymorpha.

    Irrawaddy freshwater swamp forests 2008

  • Shrestha and Joshi (1997) have reported that an understory of bamboo (Arundinaria spp. and Bambusa spp.) or species of Symplocos, Eurya, Rhododendron, Acer, Alnus, Carpinus, and Prunus can also be present in some areas in these elevations in eastern Nepal.

    Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests 2007

  • Cleared forests usually regrow as grasslands of Imperata cylindrica or bamboo forests (Bambusa, Thyrsostachys, and Oxytenanthera).

    Northern Annamites rain forests 2007

  • Bambusa polymorpha and Cephalostachyum pergracile are the most common bamboos in lower Burma.

    Irrawaddy moist deciduous forests 2007

  • Aleurites moluccana, Ficus theophrastoides, areas of bamboo (Bambusa spp.), and the gymnosperms Podocarpus neriifolius, a cycad (Cycas seemannii), and Gymnostoma vitiense.

    Fiji tropical dry forests 2007

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