What is the scientific name for bamboo and scientific name for rattan? Please share your ideas.. thanks?

bamboo: BAMBUSA textilis (one of the species, check out at the given reference below)


http://www.earthcare.com.au/bamboo.htm


rattan: Berchemia scandens

What is the scientific name for bamboo and scientific name for rattan? Please share your ideas.. thanks?
It really isn't a matter of my opinion at all!





There are hundreds of species of bamboo, each with a different latin name. According to Wikipedia there are 91 genera and about 1000 species. Bamboo are in the same family as grasses, Poaceae, but held under a sub-category called the tribe Bambuseae.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo


An example of one species of bamboo is Phyllostachys nigra:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllostach...





Rattan is also not the name of just one species but 600, in the family Arecaeae and the tribe Calamae, so there are 600 different latin names for rattan.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rattan


An example of one species of rattan is Metyroxylon warbugii:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metroxylon_...