What is Aulonemia purpurata?
{{Speciesbox | image = | genus = Aulonemia | species = purpurata | authority = (McClure) McClure | synonyms = }} '''''Aulonemia purpurata''''' is a species of the ''[[Aulonemia]]'' genus of [[bamboo]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4av9UnCMSesC&dq=Aulonemia++purpurata&pg=PA28|title=Bamboo Biodiversity: Africa, Madagascar and the Americas|last1=Bystriakova|first1=Nadia|last2=Kapos|first2=Valerie|last3=Lysenko|first3=Igor|date=2004|publisher=UNEP/Earthprint|isbn=9789280723830|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQRHAAAAQBAJ&dq=Aulonemia++purpurata&pg=PA242|title=Etymological Dictionary of Grasses|last1=Clifford|first1=Harold T.|last2=Bostock|first2=Peter D.|date=2007-05-16|publisher=Springer Science & Business Media|isbn=9783540384342|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ce_dffdC9FAC&q=Aulonemia++purpurata|title=Flora Morphology and Systematics of Lamourouxia (Scrophulariceae: Rhinanthoideae)|last=Ernst|first=Wallace Roy|date=1972|publisher=Smithsonian Institution Press|isbn=9780598241788|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ieqQs7hIREC&dq=Aulonemia++purpurata&pg=PA228|title=CRC World Dictionary of Grasses: Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology - 3 Volume Set|last=Quattrocchi|first=Umberto|date=2006-04-26|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9781420003222|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_zseAQAAMAAJ&q=Aulonemia++purpurata|title=The Kew Record of Taxonomic Literature Relating to Vascular Plants for ..|date=1973|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|language=en}}</ref> It is part of the [[Poaceae|grass family]] and endemic to [[Latin America]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://delta-intkey.com/grass/www/aulonemi.htm |title=The grass genera of the world: descriptions, illustrations, identification, and information retrieval; including synonyms, morphology, anatomy, physiology, phytochemistry, cytology, classification, pathogens, world a