Taxon: Bambusa multiplex (Lour.) Raeusch. ex Schult. & Schult. f.

Common names:

• Chinese dwarf bamboo   (Source: Pl Res SEAs ) – English
  
• Chinese-goddess bamboo   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• hedge bamboo   (Source: AH USDA 193:38. 1961) – English
  
• Oriental hedge bamboo   (Source: AH USDA 193:38. 1961) – English
  
• xiao shun zhu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• hōrai-chiku   (Source: Bamboo World ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: boundary/barrier/support   (fide Pl Res SEAs 7:65. 1995)
  
• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Pl Res SEAs 7:65. 1995)
  
• Materials: cane   (for umbrella handles and fishing poles fide Pl Res SEAs 7:65. 1995; Bamboo World)
  

Distributional range:

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Western South America: Colombia
• ALSO
  Asia

• probable origin s.e. Asia

References:

• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• 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). 7:65.
• FNA Editorial Committee. 1993–. Flora of North America.
• Forzza, R. C. et al., coord. Lista de espécies da flora do Brasil (on-line resource).
• Giraldo-Cañas, D. 2011. Catálogo de la familia Poaceae en Colombia. Darwiniana 49:139–247.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Howell, C. J. & J. W. D. Sawyer. 2006. New Zealand naturalised vascular plant checklist.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Meyer, F. G. et al. 1994. A catalog of cultivated woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Ohrnberger, D. 1999. The bamboos of the world.
• 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.
• Stapleton, C. M. A. 1994. The bamboos of Nepal and Bhutan Part I: Bambusa, Dendrocalamus, Melocanna, Cephalostachyum, Teinostachyum, and Pseudostachyum (Gramineae: Poaceae, Bambusoideae). Edinburgh J. Bot. 51:14–15.
• Stapleton, C. 1994. Bamboos of Nepal: an illustrated guide.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
• Young, R. A. & J. R. Haun. 1961. Bamboo in the United States: description, culture and utilization. U.S.D.A. Agric. Handb. 193:38.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Bambusa multiplex.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Bambusa multiplex.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Arundo multiplex Lour. (basionym)
  
• (=) Bambos nana var. alphonso-karri (Mitford) Makino
  
• (=) Bambusa alphonse-karrii Mitford ex Satow
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Bambusa glaucescens (Willd.) Siebold ex Holttum
  (previously associated with 9 accessions)
• (=) Bambusa glaucescens var. riviereorum (Maire) L. C. Chia & H. L. Fung
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Bambusa multiplex var. riviereorum Maire
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Bambusa nana Roxb.
  (previously associated with 3 accessions)
• (=) Bambusa nana var. alphonso-karri Lat.-Marl. ex E. G. Camus
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ludolfia glaucescens Willd.
  

Check other web resources for Bambusa multiplex (Lour.) Raeusch. ex Schult. & Schult. f.:

• 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
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• 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
• AusGrass2: Australian grass data from Bryan K. Simon’s on-line database
• 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.
• Spikelets and/or florets: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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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