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|name = Weeping bamboo 
|image = Otatea acuminata whole.jpg
|image_caption = Mexican weeping bamboo<br>''(Otatea aztecorum)''
|display_parents = 3
|taxon = Otatea
|authority = ([[Floyd Alonzo McClure|McClure]] & [[Elmer William Smith|E.W.Sm.]]) C.E.Calderón & [[Thomas Robert Soderstrom|Soderstr.]]
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|synonyms = *''Yushania'' subgenus ''Otatea'' <small>McClure & E.W.Sm.</small>
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'''''Otatea''''', called '''weeping bamboo''', is a [[genus]] of clumping [[bamboo]]s in the [[Poaceae|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>[http://www.tropicos.org/Name/40036497 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>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do;jsessionid=7D9841F90926E360C3F227A58371B614?name_id=426911 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>
# ''[[Otatea acuminata]]'' <small>(Munro) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr.</small> – widespread from [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]] to [[Oaxaca]]
# ''[[Otatea carrilloi]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés</small> – [[Chiapas]]
# ''[[Otatea fimbriata]]'' <small>Soderstr.</small> – widespread from [[Norte de Santander Department|Norte de Santander]] to [[Chiapas]]
# ''[[Otatea glauca]]'' <small>L.G.Clark & G.Cortés</small> – [[Chiapas]]
# ''[[Otatea ramirezii]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez</small> – [[Querétaro]]<ref>Ruiz-Sanchez, Eduardo. 2012. Acta Botánica Mexicana 99: 25, figure 1</ref>
# ''[[Otatea reynosoana]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark</small> – [[Guerrero]], [[Jalisco]], [[Nayarit]]
# ''[[Otatea rzedowskiorum]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez</small> – [[Chiapas]]
# ''[[Otatea transvolcanica]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark</small> – [[México State]], [[Jalisco]], [[Colima]]
# ''[[Otatea victoriae]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez</small> – [[Hidalgo (state)|Hidalgo]]
# ''[[Otatea ximenae]]'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark</small> – [[Oaxaca]], [[Michoacán]]

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[[Category:Bambusoideae]]
[[Category:Grasses of North America]]
[[Category:Bambusoideae genera]]