{{Short description|Genus of grasses}} {{Italic title}} {{Automatic taxobox |name = Weeping bamboo |image = Otatea acuminata whole.jpg |image_caption = Mexican weeping bamboo<br>''(Otatea aztecorum)'' |display_parents = 3 |taxon = Otatea |authority = (McClure & E.W.Sm.) C.E.Calderón & Soderstr. |synonyms_ref = <ref>[http://www.ipni.org/ipni/idPlantNameSearch.do?id=43034-1&back_page=%2Fipni%2FeditAdvPlantNameSearch.do%3Bjsessionid%3D9D48A9CD4480535A7E4031FCFB09A11F%3Ffind_infragenus%3D%26find_geoUnit%3D%26find_includePublicationAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_addedSince%3D%26find_family%3D%26find_genus%3DOtatea%26find_infrafamily%3D%26find_rankToReturn%3Dgen%26find_publicationTitle%3D%26find_authorAbbrev%3D%26find_infraspecies%3D%26find_includeBasionymAuthors%3Dtrue%26find_modifiedSince%3D%26find_species%3D%26output_format%3Dnormal The International Plant Names Index]</ref> |synonyms = *''Yushania'' subgenus ''Otatea'' <small>McClure & E.W.Sm.</small> }}
'''''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>[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== 13 species are accepted.<ref name = powo>{{cite web |title=''Otatea'' (McClure & E.W.Sm.) C.E.Calderón ex Soderstr. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:30154081-2 |website=Plants of the World Online |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew |access-date=28 February 2026}}</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 to Oaxaca * ''Otatea carrilloi'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez, Sosa & Mejía-Saulés</small> – Chiapas * ''Otatea colombiana'' {{small|Ruiz-Sanchez & Londoño}} – Colombia * ''Otatea fimbriata'' <small>Soderstr.</small> – widespread from Norte de Santander to Chiapas * ''Otatea glauca'' <small>L.G.Clark & G.Cortés</small> – Chiapas * ''Otatea nayeeri'' {{small|Ruiz-Sanchez}} – western Mexico (Durango and Nayarit) * ''Otatea odam'' {{small|Ruiz-Sanchez & Art.Castro}} – Mexico (Durango and Zacatecas) * ''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 * ''Otatea ximenae'' <small>Ruiz-Sanchez & L.G.Clark</small> – Oaxaca, Michoacán
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Category:Bambusoideae Category:Flora of the Neotropical realm Category:Grasses of North America Category:Bambusoideae genera Category:Taxa named by Floyd Alonzo McClure