Nastus is a genus of slender, erect, scrambling or climbing bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. It includes 12 species native to Madagascar and Réunion.
The genus was erected by French botanist Antoine Laurent de Jussieu in 1789.
Species 12 species are accepted.
Formerly included See Arundinaria, Bambusa, Cathariostachys, Cenchrus, Chloothamnus, Chusquea, Dendrocalamus, Dinochloa, Gigantochloa, Guadua, Melocanna, Ruhooglandia, Thamnocalamus, and Widjajachloa.
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Bor, N. L. (1972) A new species of Nastus from New Guinea Plant Systematics and Evolution, 120 (1-2). pp. 87-91. ISSN 0378-2697 The Archives of the Rare Fruit Council of Australia Camus, A. 1937. Nastus Humberlianus Bambou nouveau de Madagascar. Bulletin de la Société Botanique de France. Vol. 84 (3) 1937