Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Phyllostachys aurea Rivière & C.Rivière, Bull. Soc. Acclim. France ser. 3, 5: 716–721 (1878)
Vernacular Name(s):
Fishpole bamboo; walking stick bamboo
 Description

Fairly dense thicket-forming with rhizomes running extensively. Culm usually 3–6 m (often taller in cultivation), glaucous when young, green during the first year, yellow afterwards, erect, with white waxy ring beneath nodes when young; nodes on some shoots congested and sometimes zigzag towards base; internodes swollen and often asymmetric. Culm-sheath light mauve-brown or pinkish brown, mottled dark purplish, especially towards apex; auricles and oral bristles 0; sheath-blade narrow linear, flat, often with greenish pink marginal band. Branches spreading widely to give an open network. Leaf-sheath with long oral bristles. Auricles 0. Ligule minutely puberulent. Leaf-blade usually 5–13–(15) × 0.7–2–(2.7) cm, lanceolate, abaxially glaucescent, acuminate.

[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42.
Rivière, A.; Rivière, C. 1878: Les Bambous. Bulletin de la Société d'Acclimatation de France. Paris. ser. 3, 5: 221–253, 290–322, 392–421,460–478 , 501–526, 597–645, 666–721, 758–828.
Sykes, W.R. 2000: Subfamily Bamusoideae. In: Edgar, E.; Connor, H. E. Flora of New Zealand Vol. V. Gramineae. Manaaki Whenua Press, Lincoln, New Zealand. 19–39.