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Phyllostachys aureosulcata; photograph (c) Anne Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) CC BY(c) Anne Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2026-07-24

Phyllostachys aureosulcata McClure

Yellow groove bamboo; Stake-and-forage bamboo; Yellow-grove bamboo

Poaceae · China Southeast

No habitat climate
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Summary

Phyllostachys aureosulcata, the yellow groove bamboo, is a species of bamboo in the family Poaceae. It is native to the Zhejiang Province of China. It is a running bamboo with a distinctive yellow stripe in the culm groove (or sulcus) that is often grown as an ornamental.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phyllostachys aureosulcata", 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 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 4 of the 5 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.
NativeChina Southeast · introduced: Austria, Germany, China North-Central, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia · 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” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 5 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 2 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 6 km away. 531 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. 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.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Anne Parker, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Other Phyllostachys 22 in the reference

Phyllostachys angusta Phyllostachys angusta Stone bamboo Photo: CC0, DaderotPhyllostachys atrovaginata Phyllostachys atrovaginata Incense bamboo Photo: CC BY-SA, FilostachysPhyllostachys aurea Phyllostachys aurea Golden bamboo Photo: CC BY, Sam KieschnickPhyllostachys bissetii Phyllostachys bissetii Bamboo Photo: CC BY-SA, Jordi Coll CostaPhyllostachys dulcis Phyllostachys dulcis Sweetshoot bamboo Photo: CC BY-SA, David J. StangPhyllostachys edulis Phyllostachys edulis Tortoise shell bamboo Photo: CC BY, plant 0302 Phyllostachys flexuosa Drooping timber bamboo Phyllostachys glauca Phyllostachys glauca Poaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot Phyllostachys heteroclada Fishscale bamboo Phyllostachys iridescens Phyllostachys iridescens Cock bamboo Photo: CC0, DaderotPhyllostachys makinoi Phyllostachys makinoi Makino bamboo Photo: CC BY, chrisdtPhyllostachys meyeri Phyllostachys meyeri Meyer bamboo Photo: CC0, Daderot all 23 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. alata; Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. aureocaulis; Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. aureosulcata; Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. pekinensis; Phyllostachys aureosulcata f. spectabilis and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
McClure
Native to
China Southeast
Wild records
5 in range · 2 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; 52 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (37 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 6 at a herbarium, 9 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 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 35 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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