Arundina graminifolia(D.Don) Hochr.

Bamboo Orchid

WFO wfo-0000282008 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Kevin Faccenda
fig. a Kevin Faccenda, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-02 / obs. 204055383
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Tyler Bishop
fig. b Tyler Bishop, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198430715
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Skjold Søndergaard
fig. c Skjold Søndergaard, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 172297786
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by leahmv
fig. d leahmv, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 170812031
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Lawrence Hylton
fig. e Lawrence Hylton, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 162095959
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Enéas V. Gouvêa Junior
fig. f Enéas V. Gouvêa Junior, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 190215808
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Cheryl McCleary-Catalano
fig. g Cheryl McCleary-Catalano, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 174062267
Arundina graminifolia, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. h Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 176888997

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Flowering n = 963 observations

Peak flowering in Nov, from 963 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 29 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Arundina affinis Griff.
  • Arundina bambusifolia Lindl.
  • Arundina caespitosa Aver.
  • Arundina chinensis Blume
  • Arundina chinensis var. major S.Y.Hu
  • Arundina densa Lindl.
  • Arundina densiflora Hook.f.
  • Arundina graminifolia f. alba N.H.Tuan & O.Gruss
  • Arundina graminifolia var. chinensis (Blume) S.S.Ying
  • Arundina graminifolia var. revoluta (Hook.f.) A.Lamb
  • Arundina maculata J.J.Sm.
  • Arundina meyenii (Schauer) Rchb.f.
  • Arundina minor Lindl.
  • Arundina philippii Rchb.f.
  • Arundina philippii var. malayana Ridl.
  • Arundina pulchella Teijsm. & Binn.
  • Arundina pulchra Miq.
  • Arundina revoluta Hook.f.
  • Arundina revoluta var. borneensis J.J.Sm.
  • Arundina sanderiana Kraenzl.
  • Arundina speciosa Blume
  • Arundina speciosa var. sarasinorum Schltr.
  • Arundina stenopetala Gagnep.
  • Bletia graminifolia D.Don

and 5 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.