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Dendrocalamus sinicus L.C.Chia & J.L.Sun

Giant Dragon Bamboo

Poaceae · China South-Central, Laos

No habitat climate
Photographs not checked iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built. Not asked, or not answered, is not "none": nothing here claims there is none. Why the site says it this way.
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Summary

Dendrocalamus sinicus, the dragon bamboo, is a gigantic clumping bamboo native to Yunnan Province of China and to Laos. It has the largest culms of any known species of bamboo; up to 36 cm (14 in) wide with culm walls up to 6 centimetres (2.4 in) thick and the culm up to 46 m (151 ft) height. Each culm can weigh up to 450 kg (990 lb) apiece. A plant eventually consists of about one hundred culms. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Dendrocalamus sinicus", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 4 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 4 of the 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeChina South-Central, Laos · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Map marker21.95, 100.65 · in the densest population, 4 records (100% of those in range)
Kew's description“bamboo” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 4 georeferenced records inside the native range; none carries a licence permitting republication, so the map shows no points. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 4 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.
How this section is made
The map marker: the centre of the tenth-degree cell nearest the middle (no openly licensed record lies in the population, so no record's coordinates are published) of the densest 1° population of the 4 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

Not checked. iNaturalist was skipped (not asked) when this page was built; GBIF's observation records with coordinates hold none. Not a statement that none exist.

Other Dendrocalamus 11 in the reference

Dendrocalamus asper Dendrocalamus asper Asper Photo: CC BY, Eduardo Chacón Madrigal Dendrocalamus bambusoides Poaceae Dendrocalamus barbatus Poaceae Dendrocalamus brandisii Dendrocalamus brandisii Velvetleaf bamboo Photo: Public domain, StickpenDendrocalamus giganteus Dendrocalamus giganteus Giant bamboo Photo: CC BY, Maurice RaymondDendrocalamus hamiltonii Dendrocalamus hamiltonii Tama bamboo Photo: CC BY, Sinéad Tuttle-LernerDendrocalamus latiflorus Dendrocalamus latiflorus Taiwan giant bamboo Photo: CC BY, Weiting LiuDendrocalamus membranaceus Dendrocalamus membranaceus Waya bamboo Photo: CC BY-SA, DvellakatDendrocalamus minor Dendrocalamus minor Poaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot Dendrocalamus pulverulentus Poaceae Dendrocalamus strictus Dendrocalamus strictus Male bamboo Photo: CC BY-SA, Dinesh Valke

Names & registers

Also known as Sinocalamus sinicus. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
L.C.Chia & J.L.Sun
Native to
China South-Central, Laos
Wild records
4 in range · 0 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-22
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-22names fetched 2026-10-22
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-224 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
Wikimedia Commons commons nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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