Pseudosasa hindsii (Munro) S.L.Chen & G.Y.Sheng ex T.G.Liang

Native to:

China Southeast

Introduced into:

Japan, Jawa, New Zealand North

Homotypic Synonyms

Arundinaria hindsii Munro in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 26: 31 (1868)
Pleioblastus hindsii (Munro) Nakai in J. Jap. Bot. 9: 236 (1933)
Thamnocalamus hindsii (Munro) E.G.Camus in Bambusées: 52 (1913)

Heterotypic Synonyms

Acidosasa denigrata W.T.Lin in J. S. China Agric. Univ. 14(1): 48 (1993)
Arundinaria cerata McClure in Lingnan Univ. Sci. Bull. 9: 2 (1940)
Arundinaria flexuosa Hance in J. Bot. 14: 339 (1876)
Arundinaria hirtivaginata W.T.Lin in Bull. Bot. Res., Harbin 12: 354 (1992)
Arundinaria maudiae (Dunn) Keng f. in Techn. Bull. Natl. Forest. Res. Bur. 8: 13 (1948)
Arundinaria multifloscula W.T.Lin in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 26: 231 (1988)
Arundinaria orthotropoides (W.T.Lin) W.T.Lin in J. Bamboo Res. 19(1): 8 (2000)
Arundinaria panda Keng in Sinensia 7: 416 (1936)
Arundinaria quadrangula W.T.Lin & Z.J.Feng in Acta Phytotax. Sin. 30: 559 (1992)
Arundinaria yangshanensis W.T.Lin in J. Bamboo Res. 16(3): 26 (1997)
Oligostachyum orthotropoides W.T.Lin in J. S. China Agric. Univ. 14(1): 49 (1993)
Phyllostachys maudiae Dunn in Bull. Misc. Inform. Kew, Addit. Ser. 10: 330 (1912)
Pleioblastus hindsii f. albostriatus Y.Fujimoto in Rep. Fuji Bamboo Gard. 17: 9, 105 (1972)
Pleioblastus hindsii f. heterocycla H.Okamura & Yu.Tanaka in Hort. Bamoo Sp. Japan: 66 (1986)
Pleioblastus hindsii f. kikko Muroi & H.Okamura in Take Sasa: 131 (1977), nom. nud.
Pleioblastus hispidulus W.T.Lin & Z.J.Feng in J. S. China Agric. Univ. 14(1): 50 (1993)
Pleioblastus pandus (Keng) Keng f. in Techn. Bull. Natl. Forest. Res. Bur. 8: 1 (1948)
Pseudosasa aureovagina W.T.Lin in J. Bamboo Res. 12(3): 4 (1993)
Pseudosasa baiyunensis W.T.Lin in J. Bamboo Res. 13(2): 20 (1994)
Pseudosasa magilaminaris B.M.Yang in J. Hunan Sci. Technol. Univ. 1(1): 11 (1985)
Pseudosasa multifloscula (W.T.Lin) W.T.Lin in Guihaia 10: 18 (1990)
Pseudosasa nigronodis G.A.Fu in J. Bamboo Res. 15(1): 4 (1996)

Kingdom Plantae
Phylum Streptophyta
Class Equisetopsida
Subclass Magnoliidae
Order
Poales

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Family
Poaceae

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Genus
Pseudosasa

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Species
Pseudosasa hindsii

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Clayton, W.D., Harman, K.T. & Williamson, H. (2006). World Grass Species - Synonymy database The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae. Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Kew Backbone Distributions

Edgar, E & Connor, H.E. (2010). Flora of New Zealand, ed. 2, 5: 1-650. R.E.Owen, Government Printer, Wellington.
Ohwi, J. (1984). Flora of Japan (in English): 1-1067. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2006). Poaceae. Flora of China 22: 1-733. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

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IPNI - The International Plant Names Index

Date	Reference	Identified As	Barcode	Type Status	Has image?
	McClure, F.A. [20997] United States		K002362624		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20896] Hong Kong		K002362525		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20894] Hong Kong		K002362531		Yes
	Zhu, N. [2793] Hong Kong		K002362523		Yes
	Gamble, J.S. [22] Hong Kong		K002362589		Yes
	Tutcher, W.J. [633] Hong Kong		K002362535		Yes
	Zhu, N.; Chia, L.C.; Fung, H.L.; But, P. [2799] Hong Kong		K002362524		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20894] Hong Kong		K002362530		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [22014] United States		K002362622		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20997] United States		K002362623		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.]		K002362588		Yes
	Sykes, W.R. [180/93] New Zealand		K002362595		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.]		K002362494		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.] New Zealand		K002362597		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.]		K002362495		Yes
	Hu, S.Y. [11683] Hong Kong		K002362538		Yes
	Gamble, J.S. [22] Hong Kong		K002362590		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20896] Hong Kong		K002362527		Yes
	[S. T. D.] [s.n.] Hong Kong		K002362533		Yes
	Sykes, W.R. [180/93] New Zealand		K002362596		Yes
	Nan-Zhu [2777] Hong Kong		K002362537		Yes
	Nan-Zhu [2851]		K002362520		Yes
	Nan-Zhu [2749] Hong Kong		K002362521		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20891] Hong Kong		K002362532		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20891] Hong Kong		K002362526		Yes
	Hu, S.Y. [6459] Hong Kong		K002362518		Yes
	Nan-Zhu [2843] Hong Kong		K002362519		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [21499] United States		K002362625		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20891] Hong Kong		K002362528		Yes
	Zhu, N.; Chia, L.C.; Fung, H.L.; But, P. [2807] Hong Kong		K002362529		Yes
	McClure, F.A. [20894] Hong Kong		K002362517		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.] Hong Kong		K002362534		Yes
	Nan-Zhu [2863] Hong Kong		K002362522		Yes
	Thomas, W.J. [s.n.] Hong Kong		K002362536		Yes
May 20, 1986	Dunn, S.T. [48] Hong Kong	Arundinaria hindsii	K000872636	Type	Yes
	Guile, D.P.M. [5994] Hong Kong	Arundinaria hindsii	K002812505		Yes
	s.coll. [s.n.] United Kingdom	Arundinaria hindsii	K000872610	Unknown Type Material	Yes
	Hind [s.n.] Hong Kong	Arundinaria hindsii	K000098710	Type	Yes

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EBC Common Names
- Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora
- Clayton, W.D., Vorontsova, M.S., Harman, K.T. and Williamson, H. (2006 onwards). GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora.
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2025. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
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Sources

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

EBC Common Names

GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

Pseudosasa hindsii (Munro) S.L.Chen & G.Y.Sheng ex T.G.Liang

Distribution

Native to:

Introduced into:

Synonyms

Homotypic Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Classification

Kew's Tree of Life Explorer

Publications

POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

Kew Backbone Distributions

Other Data

Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index External Link

Herbarium Catalogue (38 records)

Sources

Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

EBC Common Names

GrassBase - The Online World Grass Flora

Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

Kew Backbone Distributions

Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

IPNI - The International Plant Names Index