Otatea

Otatea, called weeping bamboo, is a genus of clumping bamboos in the grass family, native to Mexico, Central America, and Colombia.<ref>Calderón, Cléofe E. & Soderstrom, Thomas Robert. 1980. Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 44: 21</ref><ref>Tropicos, Otatea (McClure & E.W. Sm.) C.E. Calderón & Soderstr.</ref><ref name=u>Ruiz-Sanchez, E., V. Sosa, M. T. Mejía-Saules, X. Londoño & L. G. Clark. 2011. A taxonomic revision of Otatea (Poaceae, Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) including four new species. Systematic Botany 36(2): 314–336.</ref>

The name derives from the Nahuatl (Aztec) word "otatl", meaning "bamboo".

Species<ref>Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families</ref><ref name=u/><ref>Espejo Serna, A., A. R. López-Ferrari & J. Valdés-Reyna. 2000. Poaceae. Monocotiledóneas Mexicanas

una Sinopsis Florística 10: 7–236 [and index].</ref><ref>Ruiz-Sanchez, E., 2015. Parametric and non-parametric species delimitation methods result in the recognition of two new Neotropical woody bamboo species. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 93, pp.261–273.</ref>

1. Otatea acuminata (Munro) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr. – widespread from Chihuahua to Oaxaca
2. Otatea carrilloi Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés – Chiapas
3. Otatea fimbriata Soderstr. – widespread from Norte de Santander to Chiapas
4. Otatea glauca L.G.Clark & G.Cortés – Chiapas
5. Otatea ramirezii Ruiz-Sanchez – Querétaro<ref>Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo. 2012. Acta Botánica Mexicana 99: 25, figure 1</ref>
6. Otatea reynosoana Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Guerrero, Jalisco, Nayarit
7. Otatea rzedowskiorum Ruiz-Sanchez – Chiapas
8. Otatea transvolcanica Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – México State, Jalisco, Colima
9. Otatea victoriae Ruiz-Sanchez – Hidalgo
10. Otatea ximenae Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark – Oaxaca, Michoacán