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Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro

Legi bamboo

Poaceae · Laos, Vietnam +8

No habitat climate

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Summary

Gigantochloa atter, also known as black bamboo, sweet bamboo, or giant atter, is a bamboo species belonging to the genus Gigantochloa. It grows up to 20 meters tall. It is native to Island Southeast Asia, but has become naturalized all over South Asia.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Gigantochloa atter", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 6 of the 8 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.

Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

NativeLaos, Vietnam, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, New Guinea · 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).

Kew's description“bamboo” · “wet tropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 8 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 6 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.

Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 4931908 (Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz): Kew's file holds it as Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro (accepted); 5 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.

Photographs

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Photographs: Wibowo Djatmiko (Wie146), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Forest and Kim Starr, CC BY 3.0 us, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Gigantochloa 7 in the reference

Gigantochloa albociliata White-fringe gigantochloa Photo: CC BY-SA, Matthieu Sontag (User:Mirgolth)

Gigantochloa apus Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Abu Hamas

Gigantochloa atroviolacea Black bamboo Photo: CC0, author not stated Gigantochloa lako Poaceae

Gigantochloa levis Poring bamboo Photo: CC0, Daderot Gigantochloa ridleyi Poaceae

Gigantochloa verticillata Bamboo cane Photo: CC BY, Ganjar Cahyadi

Names & registers

Also known as Bambusa atter; Bambusa thouarsii var. atter; Bambusa vulgaris var. atter. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Poaceae

Described by

(Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro

Native to

Laos, Vietnam, Borneo +7

Wild records

8 in range · 8 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 answeredasked 2026-10-22GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 5 records of GBIF's key 4931908, Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz (Kew's file holds it as Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro (accepted)): GBIF occurrence search API; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by its label; its IPNI identifier 403991-1 is Kew's for Gigantochloa atter (Hassk.) Kurz ex Munro

Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22

iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked

GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22

Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 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 6 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.