The bamboo mosaic virus is a filamentous, single-stranded, positive-sense RNA virus, a potexvirus of the alphavirus superfamily. According to current knowledge, BaMV is the main filterable virus affecting bamboo.
竹嵌紋病毒是一種長絲狀的單股正極 RNA 病毒，屬於 α 病毒總科中的「馬鈴薯病毒 X 屬」，是目前所知，主要感染竹類的濾過性病毒。