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Poaceae

Smooth-shoot gigantochloa

Gigantochloa levis (Blanco) Merr.

Family
Poaceae
Genus
Gigantochloa

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Smooth-shoot gigantochloa: Bamboo specimen in Wangjianglou Park (望江楼公园) - Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Photo: Daderot, CC0, from Wikimedia Commons

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Common names

By language (3)
Chinese
毛笋竹, 毛筍竹
English
Smooth-shoot gigantochloa
Malay
Buluh beting, Buluh bias, Buluh bisa

Synonyms

  • Arundarbor levis (Blanco) Kuntze
  • Bambusa levis Blanco
  • Dendrocalamus curranii Gamble
  • Gigantochloa heteroclada Stapf
  • Gigantochloa scribneriana Merr.

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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.