Taxon: Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai

See also subordinate taxa:

• Pseudosasa japonica var. japonica (no accessions)
• Pseudosasa japonica var. tsutsumiana (2 accessions)

Common names:

• arrow bamboo   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• green onion bamboo   (Source: Bamboo World ) – English   [Pseudosasa japonica var. tsutsumiana]
  
• me-take   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• rakkyō-yadake   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Pseudosasa japonica var. tsutsumiana]
  
• yadake   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• idae   (Source: Ency Korea ) – Transcribed Korean
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Bamboo China)
  
• Materials: cane   (fide Bamboo World)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea, South
• EUROPE
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

References:

• Clark, L. G. 2011. Review of Poaceae Bambusoideae data for World Economic Plants, ed. 2. pers. comm. via e–mail on 22 Jul.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). [= Sasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Makino].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Randall, R. P. 2007. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status.
• Tai Hyun Chung. 1965. Illustrated encyclopedia of fauna & flora of Korea, vol. 5, Tracheophyta.
• Tucker, G. C. 1988. The genera of Bambusoideae (Gramineae) in the southeastern United States. J. Arnold Arbor. 69:251. [mentions as Arundinaria japonica].
• Wang Dajun & Shen Shao-Jin. 1987. Bamboos of China.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pseudosasa japonica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pseudosasa japonica.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Pseudosasa japonica.

Synonyms:

• Arundinaria japonica Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud. [≡ Pseudosasa japonica var. japonica]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• Sasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino [≡ Pseudosasa japonica var. japonica]
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• Grass Manual on the Web: Manual of Grasses for North America North of Mexico
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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