Lophatherum gracileBrongn.

bamboo-leaf

WFO wfo-0000878541 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Lophatherum gracile, photographed by 四角銅鑼
fig. a 四角銅鑼, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-10-29 / obs. 166205604
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by 葉子
fig. b 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 173688054
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. c Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 89695260
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. d Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106377116
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. e Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106377099
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by Jacy Chen
fig. f Jacy Chen, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 106376072
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by Cheng-Tao Lin
fig. g Cheng-Tao Lin, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 65016580
Lophatherum gracile, photographed by 國立臺灣博物館
fig. h 國立臺灣博物館, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 56866605

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Native range 27 botanical countries

Regions where Lophatherum gracile is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Japan, Korea, Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, India, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Queensland China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanJapanTaiwanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaIndiaJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarNepalNew GuineaPhilippinesSri LankaSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnamQueensland KoreaNansei-shoto
Native distribution of Lophatherum gracile, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Assam ASS ASIA-TROPICAL
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
India IND
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nepal NEP
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Sri Lanka SRL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Nansei-shoto NNS
Taiwan TAI
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 408 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 4.2 °C 12.0 °C 14.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 25.7 °C 29.4 °C 31.4 °C
Annual rainfall 1,634 mm 2,921 mm 4,682 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 97 mm 270 mm 848 mm

It is barely found anywhere that freezes. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 408 research-grade observations of Lophatherum gracile that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 26 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.

  • Acroelytrum japonicum Steud.
  • Acroelytrum urville (Steud.) Steud. ex Miq.
  • Allelotheca urvillei Steud.
  • Lophatherum annulatum Franch. & Sav.
  • Lophatherum dubium Steud.
  • Lophatherum elatum Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Lophatherum elatum Zoll. & Moritzi
  • Lophatherum gracile f. elatum (Steud.) T.Koyama
  • Lophatherum gracile f. musashiense (Hiyama) T.Koyama
  • Lophatherum gracile f. pilosulum (Steud.) T.Koyama
  • Lophatherum gracile var. annulatum (Franch. & Sav.) Hack.
  • Lophatherum gracile var. cochinchinense A.Camus
  • Lophatherum gracile var. elatum (Steud.) Hack.
  • Lophatherum gracile var. gracile
  • Lophatherum gracile var. intermedium A.Camus
  • Lophatherum gracile var. musashiense Hiyama
  • Lophatherum gracile var. pilosulum (Steud.) Hack.
  • Lophatherum gracile var. pilosum A.Camus
  • Lophatherum gracile var. zeylanicum (Hook.f.) Bor
  • Lophatherum gracile var. zeylanicum (Hook.f.) A.Camus
  • Lophatherum humile Miq.
  • Lophatherum japonicum Steud.
  • Lophatherum lehmannii Nees ex Steud.
  • Lophatherum multiflorum Steud.

and 2 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.
  3. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol LOGR7. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

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