Pleioblastus argenteostriatus(Regel) Nakai

WFO wfo-0000890964 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 6 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 6 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. a Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-05-03 / obs. 125737412
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. b Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37634637
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. c Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 29829433
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by harum.koh
fig. d harum.koh, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 2740332
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshimasa Uchiyama
fig. e Yoshimasa Uchiyama, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 69140724
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. f Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 125737427
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Yoshihiro Tokue
fig. g Yoshihiro Tokue, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 37634647
Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, photographed by Eric Knight
fig. h Eric Knight, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 16162466

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Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Pleioblastus argenteostriatus is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Pleioblastus argenteostriatus, 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.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

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.

Also published as 162 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.

  • Arundarbor argenteostriata (Regel) Kuntze
  • Arundinaria akebono (Makino) R.Stover
  • Arundinaria angustifolia (Mitford) J.Houz.
  • Arundinaria argenteostriata (Regel) Ohwi
  • Arundinaria argenteostriata (Regel) Vilm.
  • Arundinaria argenteostriata f. purpurascens (Nakai) Honda
  • Arundinaria argenteostriata var. communis (Makino) Ohwi
  • Arundinaria argenteostriata var. tomentosa (Nakai) Honda
  • Arundinaria chino (Franch. & Sav.) Makino
  • Arundinaria chino f. angustifolia (Mitford) C.S.Chao & Renvoize
  • Arundinaria chino f. elegantissima Makino ex I.Tsuboi
  • Arundinaria chino f. laydeckeri (Bean) Ohwi
  • Arundinaria chino f. vaginata (Hack.) Crouzet ex Demoly
  • Arundinaria chino var. argenteostriata (Regel) Makino
  • Arundinaria chino var. gracilis Makino ex I.Tsuboi
  • Arundinaria chino var. laydeckeri (Bean) Ohwi
  • Arundinaria chino var. laydekeri (Bean) Ohwi
  • Arundinaria chrysantha Mitford
  • Arundinaria communis Makino
  • Arundinaria fortunei f. glabra (Makino) Demoly
  • Arundinaria hisauchii Makino
  • Arundinaria laydeckeri Hook.f. ex Mitford
  • Arundinaria laydekeri (Bean) Hook.f.
  • Arundinaria maximowiczii Rivière & C.Rivière ex E.G.Camus

and 138 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. 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.

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