Semiarundinaria is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.[2][4]

Semiarundinaria is native to temperate and subtropical woodland in China and Japan. The plants are generally rhizomatous, tall and erect bamboos with cylindrical stems, producing tufts of lanceolate leaves at each node.[5]

Species[3][6]
  1. Semiarundinaria densiflora - Anhui, Guangdong, Hubei, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
  2. Semiarundinaria fastuosa - Honshu; cultivated in China
  3. Semiarundinaria fortis - Kyushu
  4. Semiarundinaria kagamiana - Honshu
  5. Semiarundinaria shapoensis - Hainan
  6. Semiarundinaria sinica - Jiangsu, Zhejiang
  7. Semiarundinaria yashadake - Japan
Formerly included[3]

see Acidosasa Chimonocalamus Fargesia Oligostachyum × Phyllosasa Sasaella Sinobambusa Yushania

References

  1. ^ lectotype designated by McClure, Taxon 6(7): 208 (1957)
  2. ^ a b Tropicos, Semiarundinaria Nakai
  3. ^ a b c Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  4. ^ Nakai, Takenoshin. 1925. Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 6(3): 150-151 in Latin
  5. ^ RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 978-1405332965.
  6. ^ Flora of China Vol. 22 Page 151 业平竹属 ye ping zhu shu Semiarundinaria Nakai, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 150. 1925.