Bambusa ridleyi Gamble Soejatmia is a monotypic genus of flowering plants belonging to the family Poaceae.
It just contains one species, Soejatmia ridleyi (Gamble) K.M.Wong[2] Its native range is from the peninsula of Thailand to Malaya.
[2] The genus name of Soejatmia is in honour of Soejatmi Dransfield (b.
1939), an Indonesia-born British plant taxonomist specializing in bamboos and also honorary research fellow at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
[3] The Latin specific epithet of ridleyi refers to Henry Nicholas Ridley (1855 – 1956), was an English botanist, geologist and naturalist who lived much of his life in Singapore.