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
  
• ratsukiyou-ya-dake   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji   [Pseudosasa japonica var. tsutsumiana]
  
• yadake   (Source: F JapanOhwi ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• sandju   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Transcribed Korean
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

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

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Honshu, Kyushu, Shikoku; Korea, South

• naturalized elsewhere

• cultivated elsewhere

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage. (Zander ed13)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world. (Bamboo World)
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.). (F JapanOhwi) [= Sasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc.) Makino].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Tucker, G. C. 1988. J. Arnold Arbor. 69:251. [mentions as Arundinaria japonica].
• Wang Dajun & Shen Shao-Jin. 1987. Bamboos of China. (Bamboo China) 45.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). (F ChinaEng)

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Pseudosasa japonica.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Pseudosasa japonica. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• CNWG: Catalogue of New World Grasses Searchable Database
• World Grass Species-Descriptions: Morphological species description from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

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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