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|accepted_name=Pseudosasa japonica
|accepted_authority=(Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai
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|common_names=Japanese arrow bamboo;Metake;Yadake
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Arundinaria japonica
|authority=
|rank=species
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|hierarchy=Poaceae;Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae;Poaceae tribe Bambuseae;Pseudosasa;Pseudosasa japonica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Poaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Poaceae tribe Bambuseae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Pseudosasa]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Pseudosasa japonica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 24
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=page 29
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Culms </b>1-3(5) m tall, to 1.5 cm thick, erect or nodding, finely ridged; nodes slightly raised; sheath scar large; internodes long, finely mottled, with a light ring of wax below the nodes. <b>Culm</b> sheaths to 25 cm, basally glabrous, distally appressed-hispid, persistent; auricles and fimbriae absent; blades 2-5 cm, erect, abaxial surfaces glabrous. <b>Branches</b> usually 1 per node, with no basal buds or branches, sometimes rebranching from more distal nodes. <b>Foliage</b> leaves: sheaths glabrous, edges membranous; auricles absent or small and erect; fimbriae absent or scarce, erect; ligules long, oblique, erose, slightly pubescent, abaxial ligules glabrous to finely ciliate; blades 15-35 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, glabrous or abaxial surfaces sporadically shortly red-brown tomentose, light green to glaucous, adaxial surfaces dark green, glossy, glabrous. <b>Spikelets</b> 3.5-10 cm, narrowly cylindrical, curved, with 5-20(25) florets. <b>Lemmas</b> 1.2-1.5 cm, glabrous, often mucronate, mucros about 2 mm; paleas nearly equaling the lemmas, glabrous, keels finely cilate.</span><!--

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|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Va.;Conn.;N.Y.;Calif.;Del.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Fla.
|discussion=<p><i>Pseudosasa japonica</i> is a widely cultivated ornamental species that used to be grown for arrows in Japan. There are no known wild populations. It forms a tough and effective screen, and has become naturalized in British Columbia and the eastern United States. A shorter cultivar with partially ventricose culms, 'Tsutsumiana', and cultivars with variegated leaves are also available.</p>
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name=Pseudosasa japonica
|authority=(Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Arundinaria japonica
|basionyms=
|family=Poaceae
|illustrator=Annaliese Miller
|illustration copyright=Utah State University
|distribution=Md.;N.J.;Va.;Conn.;N.Y.;Calif.;Del.;Tenn.;N.C.;S.C.;Pa.;Fla.
|reference=None
|publication title=
|publication year=
|special status=Introduced
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|subfamily=Poaceae subfam. Bambusoideae
|tribe=Poaceae tribe Bambuseae
|genus=Pseudosasa
|species=Pseudosasa japonica
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