Species on this page ( A = names approved by most authorities, s = approved as synonyms) :

 
• Sasa admirabilis Koidzumi -> Sasa elegantissima Koidzumi
• Sasa albo-marginata (Miq.) Makino & Shibata (Wang) -> Sasa veitchii (Carriere) Rehder A (GRIN)
• Sasa albomarginata (Miq.) Makino & Shibata s (GRIN) -> Sasa veitchii (Carriere) Rehder A (GRIN)
• Sasa amabilis Makino & Nakai ex Nakai -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa amphitricha Koidz. (GRIN) -> Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino & Shibata (OHRN)
• Sasa argenteostriata (Regel) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Pleioblastus argenteostriatus (Regel) Nakai ' Okinadake ' (OHRN)
• Sasa asahinae Nakai (OHRN) -> Sasa shimidzuana Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa aureostriata (Regel) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Shibataea kumasasa (Steudel) Makino 'Aureostriata' (OHRN)
• Sasa auricoma (Mitford) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Pleioblastus viridistriatus (Regel) Makino (GRIN)
• Sasa bashanensis C.D. Chu & C.S. Chao (Wang) -> Indocalamus bashanensis (C.D. Chu & C.S. Chao) H.R. Zhao & Y. L. Yang (OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata 'Albostriata' (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata 'Aureostriata' (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. pilosa Muroi -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens Muroi -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hack.) Muroi f. amabilis (Makino & Nakai ex Nakai) Muroi ex Muroi & H. Okamura -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hack.) Muroi f. mollis Nakai -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa cernua Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa cernua Makino var. nikkoensis (Nakai) S. Suzuki -> Sasa cernua Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino & Shibata (OHRN)
• Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino & Shibata var. nana (Makino) S. Suzuki
• Sasa chartacea (Makino) Nakai (Tohoku) -> Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino & Shibata (OHRN)
• Sasa chimakisasa Koidz. -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa chrysantha (Mitford) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Arundinaria chrysantha Mitford (GRIN)
• Sasa confusa Nakai -> Sasa cernua Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa coreana Nakai -> Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata
• Sasa disticha (Mitford) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Arundinaria pygmaea var. disticha (Mitford) C. S. Chao & Renvoize (GRIN)
• Sasa elegantissima Koidzumi
• Sasa fortunei (Van Houtte) Fiori (CNWG) -> Nipponocalamus fortunei (Van Houtte) Nakai (CNWG)
• Sasa gigantea Tatewaki -> Sasa cernua Makino
• Sasa gombeiana Koidzumi -> Sasa pubens Nakai
• Sasa gracillima Nakai
• Sasa hainanensis C.D. Chu & C.S. Chao (Wang)
• Sasa hibaconuca Koidzumi
• Sasa hirta (Koidzumi) Tsvelev
• Sasa humilis (Mitford) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Pleioblastus humilis (Mitford) Nakai
• Sasa ishizuchiana Makino (GRIN) -> Sasa kurokawana Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino -> Pseudosasa japonica (Siebold & Zucc. ex Steud.) Makino ex Nakai
• Sasa kesuzu Muroi & H. Okamura -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa kogasensis Koidzumi
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata A (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Albostriata' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Aureostriata' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Chabokonshima' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Chabomakiba' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Chaboshimofuri' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Kiakebono' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Kinmei'
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Konshima' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Maculosa' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Makiba' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Nochizae' -> Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Notizae' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Notizae' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Takara' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. asagishima Muroi & H. Okamura -> Sasa tsuboiana Makino f. asagishima Muroi & H. Okamura
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. notizae Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex Muroi & H. Okamura -> Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Notizae' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. notizaekifu Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex H. Okamura & Y. Tanaka -> Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Notizae' (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata var. cernua (Makino) Nakai -> Sasa cernua Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata var. gigantea Tatewaki -> Sasa cernua Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata var hirta (Koidzumi) S. Suzuki -> Sasa hirta (Koidzumi) Tsvelev
• Sasa longiligulata McClure (Wang)
• Sasa macrophylla Koidz. -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa masamuneana (Makino) C. S. Chao & Renvoize (GRIN) -> Sasaella masamuneana (Makino) Hatsushima & Muro. (Masman)
• Sasa maxima Nakai -> Sasa tsuboiana Makino
• Sasa megalophylla Makino & Uchida
• Sasa mollis Makino & Nakai ex Nakai -> Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa nana (Makino) Makino -> Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino & Shibata var. nana (Makino) S. Suzuki
• Sasa nana (Makino) Makino var. elegantissima (Koidzumi) S. Suzuki -> Sasa elegantissima Koidzumi
• Sasa nemurensis Tatewaki
• Sasa nipponica (Makino) Makino & Shibata (OHRN,W3Tropicos)
• Sasa nubigena Keng f. (Wang,Xie) -> Indocalamus wilsonii (Rendle) C. S. Chao & C. D. Chu (GRIN,OHRN)
• Sasa ohmiana Koidzumi -> Sasa gracillima Nakai
• Sasa owatarii (Makino) Makino -> Pseudosasa owatarii (Makino) Makino ex Nakai (OHRN)
• Sasa palmata (Bean) Nakai -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa palmata (hort. ex Burb.) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa palmata (Marliac) Nakai (T.Enomoto) -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa paniculata (F. Schmidt) Makino & Shibata (GRIN,OHRN) -> Sasa senanensis (Franch. & Sav.) Rehder (GRIN, OHRN,W3Tropicos)
• Sasa paniculata Makino & Shibata (OHRN) -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus (OHRN)
• Sasa paniculata Makino & Shibata f. nebulosa Makino & Shibata -> Sasa cernua Makino f. nebulosa (Makino & Shibata) Tatewaki
• Sasa paniculata Makino & Shibata f. nebulosa Makino & Shibata -> Sasa palmata (Mitford) Camus f. nebulosa (Makino) S. Suzuki
• Sasa pubens Nakai
• Sasa pumila (Mitford) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Pleioblastus pumilus (Mitford) Nakai
• Sasa pygmaea (Miq.) E. G. Camus ex Rehder (GRIN) -> Arundinaria pygmaea (Miq.) Asch. & Graebn. (GRIN)
• Sasa ramosa (Makino) Makino & Shibata (GRIN, Masman) -> Sasaella ramosa (Makino) Makino (GRIN,Masman,OHRN)
• Sasa ramosissima Koidzumi (OHRN) -> Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata
• Sasa ramosissima Makino & Shibata (KFRI)
• Sasa sasakiana Crouzet (OHRN) -> Sasaella masamuneana (Makino) Hatsushima & Muroi (OHRN)
• Sasa sasakiana Makino & Uchida ex Uchida (OHRN) -> Sasa shimidzuana Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa senanensis (Franch. & Sav.) Rehder (GRIN, OHRN,W3Tropicos)
• Sasa septentrionalis Makino
• Sasa shimidzuana Makino (OHRN)
• Sasa sinica Keng (Wang)
• Sasa tessellata (Munro) Makino & Shibata (GRIN) -> Indocalamus tessellatus (Munro) Keng f. (GRIN, Wang)
• Sasa tsuboiana Makino
• Sasa variegata (Siebold ex Miq.) E. G. Camus (GRIN) -> Arundinaria variegata (Siebold ex Miq.) Makino (GRIN)
• Sasa veitchii (Carriere) Rehder A
• Sasa veitchii (Carrière) Rehder f. minor (Makino) Rehder
• Sasa veitchii (Carrière) Rehder var. veitchii f. minor (Makino) Rehder

Note

SYNONYM(S) : Arundinaria borealis (Hack.) Makino, Bambusa borealis Hack. (Wang), Pseudosasa purpurascens (Hack.) Makino, Sasa amabilis Makino & Nakai ex Nakai, Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens Muroi, Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hack.) Muroi f. amabilis (Makino & Nakai ex Nakai) Muroi ex Muroi & H. Okamura, Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hackel) Muroi f. mollis Nakai, Sasamorpha purpurascens Nakai (Masman), Sasamorpha purpurescens (Hack.) Nakai var. borealis (Hack.) Nakai (Wang) , Sasamorpha borealis (Hack.) Nakai (Tohoku), Sasamorpha borealis (Thunb.) Nakai (T.Enomoto)

CHINESE : Di zhu.

ENGLISH : Northern sasamorpha.

JAPANESE : Ji dake, Ke suzu dake (as S. mollis), Kuma suzu, Kuma suzu dake (as S. amabilis) , Kuma suzu dake, Suzu dake , Suzu dake, Suzu dake,Suzu take (spelling error),

KOREAN : Jo lit dae (Cho lit tai).

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hackel) Muroi f. albostriata Muroi, Sasamorpha purpurascens (Hack.) Nakai f. albostriata Muroi, Sasa kesuzu Muroi & H. Okamura f. albostriata (Muroi & Murakami) Muroi,

ENGLISH : White-striped leaf northern sasamorpha.

JAPANESE : Fuiri suzu dake, Shirosuji suzu dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa borealis (Hack.) Makino & Shibata var. purpurascens (Hackel) Muroi f. aureostriata Muroi, Sasamorpha borealis (Hack.) Nakai f. aureostriata (Muroi) Ohrnb., Sasamorpha purpurascens (Hack.) Nakai f. aureostriata Muroi

ENGLISH : Yellow-striped leaf northern sasamorpha.

JAPANESE : Kisuji suzu dake, Kishima suzu dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa cernua Makino var. nikkoensis (Nakai) S. Suzuki, Sasa confusa Nakai, Sasa gigantea Tatewaki, Sasa kurilensis var. cernua (Makino) Nakai, Sasa kurilensis var. gigantea Tatewaki

JAPANESE : Konsei zasa, Okuyama zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa paniculata Makino & Shibata f. nebulosa Makino & Shibata

JAPANESE : Shako tan chiku, Shakotan chiku.

KOREAN : Jeok go dahn jook (as Sasa paniculata f. nebulosa).

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa chartacea (Makino) Makino, Sasa chartacea (Makino) Nakai (Tohoku)

JAPANESE : Ezo miyako zasa, Oo kuma zasa (Ohkuma zasa, Okuma zasa), Senai zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa nana (Makino) Makino

JAPANESE : Nikkou zasa ( Nikko zasa), Miyama suzu.

KOREAN : Shim sahn se.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa admirabilis Koidzumi, Sasa nana (Makino) Makino var. elegantissima (Koidzumi) S. Suzuki, Sasa iyomontana Koidzumi

JAPANESE : Katsuragi zasa (as S. admirabilis), Katsuragi zasa, Tanga zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa ohmiana Koidzumi

JAPANESE : Hosoba zasa (as S. ohmiana), Unzen zasa, Unzen zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa ohmiana Koidzumi 'Albovariegata', Sasa ohmiana Koidzumi f. shiroshima Muroi & H. Okamura

JAPANESE : Fuiri hosoba zasa, Shiroshima hosoba zasa.

CHINESE : Hai nan chi zhu.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa tanzawana Makino, Sasaella tanzawana (Makino) Makino

JAPANESE : Ko kuma zasa, Ko kuma zasa, Miyama kuma zasa, Miyama kuma zasa, Tanzawa zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa tokatiensis Tatewaki & Yoshimura

JAPANESE : Onuka zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata var hirta (Koidzumi) S. Suzuki

JAPANESE : Sayage chishima zasa, Sayage zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kogasensis Koidzumi

JAPANESE : Kogashi zasa, Yukawa zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Arundinaria kurilensis Rupr. (W3Tropicos) , Sasa coreana Nakai.

ENGLISH : Japanese frosty bamboo, Korean arrow bamboo (as S. coreana).

JAPANESE : Asahi zasa, Chishima zasa, Chishima zasa, Nemagari dake, Nemagari dake.

KOREAN : Gweon moon jook, Seom jo lit dae, Shin ee dae (as S. coreana).

Photograph of shoot of dwarf bamboo Sasa kurilensis.

Photographs of Sasa coreana by Thomas Duvernay.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. albostriata Muroi

JAPANESE : Gintai chishima.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. aureostriata Muroi

JAPANESE : Kintai chishima.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. chabokonshima Muroi & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Chabo konshima chishima.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. chabomakiba Muroi ex H. Okamura & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Chabo makiba chishima zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. chaboshimofuri Muroi & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Chabo shimofuri chishima.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. kiakebono Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex Muroi & H. Okamura

JAPANESE : Kiakebono nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Kimmei', Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. kimmei Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex H. Okamura & al.

JAPANESE : Kinmei chishima zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. kimmei Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex H. Okamura & al.

JAPANESE : Konshima nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Shimofuri', Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. maculosa Muroi & Y. Tanaka, Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. shimofuri H. Okamura & al.

ENGLISH : Japanese frosty bamboo, Shimofuri bamboo.

JAPANESE : Shimofuri nemagari dake.

Photograph of leaf variegation by Jed Doty at Bamboogarden.

Photographs of canes & shoots of shimofuri at Bamboopeople.

Photograph of leaf colouring details (close-up) at Bamboopeople.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. makiba Muroi & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Makiba chishima zasa, Makiba nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata 'Nochizae', Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. notizae Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex Muroi & H. Okamura, Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. notizaekifu Muroi & Y. Tanaka ex H. Okamura & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Nochizae kifu nemagari dake, Nochizae kifu nemagari dake, Nochizae kifu nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. takara Muroi & Y. Tanaka

JAPANESE : Takara nemagari dake, Takara nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. tricolor Muroi & H. Okamura

JAPANESE : Miiro chishima zasa.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa kurilensis (Rupr.) Makino & Shibata f. shimashimofuri Muroi & Y. Tanaka

ENGLISH : False frosty bamboo.

JAPANESE : Shima shimofuri nemagari dake.

KOREAN : Seom dae.

JAPANESE : Nagaba nemagari dake.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa ishizuchiana Makino (GRIN) , Sasa kurokawei Muroi , Sasa tectoria Makino ex Koidzumi, Sasa palmata (Mitf.) Camus var. niijimae (Tatewaki) S. Suzuki f. kurokawana (Makino) S. Suzuki

ENGLISH : Kurokawa bamboo-grass.

JAPANESE : Iga zasa, Ishizuchi zasa (as Sasa ishizuchiana), Yanefuki zasa, Yanefuki zasa.

JAPANESE : Kishima yanefuki zasa, Kishima yanefuki zasa.

Photograph by von Johannes Stölzle at his Bambus Gallerie.

CHINESE : Chi zhu.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa nagasei S. Suzuki

JAPANESE : Makiyama zasa.

ENGLISH : Large-leaved sasa.

JAPANESE : Ooba zasa (Ohba zasa), Oba zasa (spelling error).

JAPANESE : Nemuroko zasa.

JAPANESE : Miyako zasa, Miyako zasa.

KOREAN : Do se.

SYNONYM(S) : Sasa palmata (hort. ex Burb.) E. G. Camus (GRIN), Bambusa palmata hort. ex Burb., Sasa palmata (Bean) Nakai, Sasa palmata (Mitford) E.G. Camus, Sasa palmata (Bean) Nakai, Sasa palmata (Marliac) Nakai (T.Enomoto) , Sasa paniculata Makino & Shibata

ENGLISH : Palmate bamboo, Broadleaf bamboo.

JAPANESE : Chimaki zasa, Chimaki zasa, Kumai zasa,