CC BY-SAKrzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Pleioblastus distichus (Mitford) Nakai

Pygmy bamboo; Dwarf fernleaf bamboo

Poaceae · Japan

No habitat climate

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: 2 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km. 2 of the 2 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.

NativeJapan · introduced: Great Britain, France, Transcaucasus, 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).

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

Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. 7 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. 2 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: Pleioblastus distichus (Mitford) Nakai Collected in United States of America by The New York Botanical Garden (licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Other Pleioblastus 5 in the reference

Pleioblastus argenteostriatus Chino Bamboo Photo: CC BY, WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁

Pleioblastus gramineus Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, KENPEI

Pleioblastus simonii Simon's Bamboo Photo: CC BY, Alex Press

Pleioblastus variegatus Dwarf White Stripe Bamboo Photo: CC0, author not stated

Pleioblastus viridistriatus Poaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, shinya yamada

Names & registers

Also known as Arundinaria argenteostriata var. disticha; Arundinaria disticha; Arundinaria pygmaea var. disticha; Arundinaria variabilis var. disticha; Bambusa disticha and 6 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family

Poaceae

Described by

(Mitford) Nakai

Native to

Japan

Wild records

2 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; 7 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (6 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a zoo; Wikidata's list)

Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-222 in-range records, none placed to within 10 km

Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22

Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 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 7 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.