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Taxon:  Arundinaria gigantea (Walter) Muhl.



Summary
Genus:
Arundinaria
Family:
Poaceae (alt. Gramineae)
Subfamily:
Bambusoideae
Tribe:
Arundinarieae
Nomen number:
4385
Place of publication:
Cat. pl. Amer. sept. 14. 1813
Verified:
03/12/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Arundo gigantea Walter

Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Arundinaria macrosperma Michx.
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Reference(s)
  1. Brown, R. G. & M. L. Brown. Herbaceous plants of Maryland. 1984
  2. FNA Editorial Committee. Flora of North America. 1993- http://floranorthamerica.org/
  3. Gould, F. W. The grasses of Texas. 1975
  4. Hitchcock, A. S. Manual of the grasses of the United States, ed. 2. 1950
  5. Markle, G. M. et al., eds. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2. 1998
  6. Mohlenbrock, R. H. & D. M. Ladd. Distribution of Illinois vascular plants. 1978
  7. Ohio Flora Committee (E. L. Braun, T. S. Cooperrider, T. R. Fisher, J. J. Furlow). The vascular flora of Ohio. 1967-
  8. Ohrnberger, D. The bamboos of the world. 1999
  9. Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource). http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Frontpage.html
  10. Randall, R. P. The introduced flora of Australia and its weed status. 2007 http://www.weeds.org.au/docs/intro_flora_australia.pdf
  11. Steyermark, J. A. Flora of Missouri. 1977
  12. Strausbaugh, T. D. & E. L. Core. Flora of West Virginia, ed. 2. 1978
  13. Triplett, J. K. & L. G. Clark. 2010. Phylogeny of the temperate bamboos (Poaceae: Bambusoideae: Bambuseae) with an emphasis on Arundinaria and allies. Syst. Bot. 35:102-120. www.aspt.net/systematic-botany
  14. Catalogue of New World grasses (Poaceae) (on-line resource). http://www.tropicos.org/NameSearch.aspx?projectid=10
Common names
English
giant cane –
switch cane –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesIllinoiss.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesMissouris.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNorth-Central U.S.A.United StatesOklahomahttp://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/argit8.htm
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesIndianas.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesOhios.
1NativeNorthern AmericaNortheastern U.S.A.United StatesWest Virginia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSouth-Central U.S.A.United StatesTexas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesAlabama 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesArkansas 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesDelaware 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesFlorida 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesGeorgia 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesKentucky 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesLouisiana 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMarylands.e.
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesMississippi 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesNorth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesSouth Carolina 
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesTennesseehttp://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Poaceae&GenusID=Arundinaria&SpeciesID=gigantea
1NativeNorthern AmericaSoutheastern U.S.A.United StatesVirginia 
4NaturalizedAustralasiaAustraliaAustralia  
Native
Northern America
  • NORTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Illinois (s.), Missouri (s.), Oklahoma (http://www.biosurvey.ou.edu/shrub/argit8.htm)]
  • NORTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Indiana (s.), Ohio (s.), West Virginia]
  • SOUTH-CENTRAL U.S.A.: United States [Texas]
  • SOUTHEASTERN U.S.A.: United States [Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland (s.e.), Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee (http://tenn.bio.utk.edu/vascular/database/vascular-database.asp?CategoryID=Monocots&FamilyID=Poaceae&GenusID=Arundinaria&SpeciesID=gigantea), Virginia]
Naturalized
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia
Economic Uses
Animal food
Weed
(fide Weed CRCAustralia) –


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