Taxon: Bambusa blumeana Schult. & Schult. f.

Common names:

• spiny bamboo   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• thorny bamboo   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• le zhu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• shi-chiku   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: erosion control   (fide Bamboo World)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Bamboo World)
  
• Human food: vegetable   (fide Pl Res SEAs 7:60. 1995)
  
• Materials: cane   (raw material for paper and cane for construction, basketry, chopsticks, etc. fide Pl Res SEAs 7:60. 1995; Bamboo World)
  
• Materials: fiber   (raw material for paper and cane for construction, basketry, chopsticks, etc. fide Pl Res SEAs 7:60. 1995; Bamboo World)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Indonesia - Java, Kalimantan, Lesser Sunda Islands, Sumatra; Malaysia - Sabah, Sarawak

• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Malesia: Philippines

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indo-China: Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Malaysia; Philippines

References:

• Dransfield, S. & E. A. Widjaja, eds. 1995. Bamboos. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 7:60.
• Dransfield, S. 1992. The bamboos of Sabah.
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
• Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world. [lists as B. blumeana Schult. f.].
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Roxas, C. A. 1998. Conservation and improvement of bamboo genetic resources in the Philippines. In: Vivekanandan, K. et al., Bamboo and rattan genetic resources in certain Asian countries. 103–136.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bambusa blumeana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Bambusa blumeana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bambusa blumeana.

Synonyms:

• (=) Bambusa spinosa Roxb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Bambusa stenostachya Hack.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Bambusa blumeana Schult. & Schult. f.:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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