Contains 1 accepted taxa overall.

Characteristics
Arundinaria Michx.
GIANT CANE
Classification
POALES
Arundinaria
Citation
ARUNDINARIA Michaux, Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1: 73. 1803.
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TYPE: Arundinaria macrosperma Michaux
Species
Scientific Name Common Name Herbarium Specimens Status Photos
Arundinaria gigantea SWITCHCANE Native FACW (NWPL) FACW (DEP)
[Family identification key]
1.  Rhizome horizontal, solid or hollow-centered, without air canals; culms 2-8 m tall, to 3 cm wide; primary branches to 25 cm long, with 0-1 compressed basal internodes; culm internodes usually sulcate; culm leaves deciduous
1.  Rhizome shortly horizontal, then upturned, hollow-centered, the periphery with air canals (ca. 1 mm long); culms 1-2.5(3) m tall, to 2 cm wide; primary branches (25)50-80 cm long, with 2-5 compressed basal internodes; culm internodes usually terete; culm leaves persistent to tardily deciduous
Genus Synonyms
Synonym Full Citation Basionym Type
Ludolfia Ludolfia Willdenow, Ges. Naturf. Freunde Berlin Mag. Neuesten Entdeck Gesammten Naturk. 2: 320. 1808, non Adanson 1763. TYPE: = Arundinaria Michaux 1803.
Macronax Macaronax Rafinesque, Med. Repos., ser. 2. 5: 353. 1808. TYPE: = Arundinaria Michaux 1803.
Miegia Miegia Persoon, Syn. Pl. 1: 101. 1805, non Schreber 1791. TYPE: = Arundinaria Michaux 1803.
Nipponobambusa Nipponobambusa Muroi, Nat. Hist. 6: 89. 1940. TYPE: Nipponobambusa sawadai (Makino) Muroi (Pleioblastus sawadai Makino)
Nipponocalamus Nipponocalamus Nakai, J. Jap. Bot. 18: 350. 1942. TYPE: Nipponocalamus simonii (Carriere) Nakai (Bambusa simonii Carriere)
Pleioblastus Pleioblastus Nakai, J. Arnold Arbor. 6: 145. 1925. TYPE: Pleioblastus communis (Makino) Nakai (Arundinaria communis Makino) Lectotypified by McClure, Taxon 6: 207. 1957.
Triglossum Triglossum Fischer, Cat. Gard. Gorenki vi. 1812; Fischer ex Roemer & Schultes, Syst. Veg. 2: 55, 846. 1817. TYPE: Triglossum bambusinum Fischer