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Phyllostachys vivax McClure

Elegant bamboo; Smooth-sheath bamboo; Vigorous bamboo; Chinese Timber Bamboo

Poaceae · China North-Central, China Southeast

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Summary

Phyllostachys vivax, the Chinese timber bamboo, is a species of flowering plant in the bamboo subfamily of the grass family Poaceae, native to China.

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

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 5 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 5 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 North-Central, China Southeast · introduced: China South-Central · 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 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 16 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. 5 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: Hanfmampf, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Daderot, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (2); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

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, Daderot Phyllostachys heteroclada Fishscale bamboo Phyllostachys iridescens Phyllostachys iridescens Cock bamboo Photo: CC0, DaderotPhyllostachys makinoi Phyllostachys makinoi Makino bamboo Photo: CC BY, chrisdt all 23 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Phyllostachys vivax f. aureocaulis; Phyllostachys vivax f. huanguenzhu; Phyllostachys vivax f. viridivittata; Phyllostachys vivax f. vittata. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Poaceae
Described by
McClure
Native to
China North-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
5 in range · 1 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; 7 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (7 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-225 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 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 8 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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