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Phyllostachys heteroclada Oliv.

Fishscale bamboo; Water bamboo

Poaceae · China South-Central, China North-Central +1

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

Phyllostachys heteroclada, the fishscale bamboo, also known as "water bamboo", is a running bamboo. The water bamboo name comes from the air canals in the rhizomes and roots that allow this bamboo to grow in more saturated conditions as compared to similar species. This species can also have abrupt kinks at the base of the culms. Maximum height can reach 35 ft with a diameter of 2 in. More on Wikipedia ›

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Phyllostachys heteroclada", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 116 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 116 of the 116 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.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast · 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 marker27.536, 106.83 · in the densest population, 87 records (75% of those in range)
Kew's description“bamboo” · “temperate” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 116 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 26 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 381 km away. 4 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 116 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 openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 116 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 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 aureosulcata Phyllostachys aureosulcata Yellow groove bamboo Photo: CC BY, Anne ParkerPhyllostachys 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, DaderotPhyllostachys 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 bissetii f. denigrata; Phyllostachys cantoniensis; Phyllostachys cerata; Phyllostachys congesta; Phyllostachys dubia and 10 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
Oliv.
Native to
China South-Central, China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
116 in range · 26 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; 9 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (9 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22116 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22
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 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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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