Phyllostachys is a genus of Asian bamboo in the grass family. Many of the species are found in central and southern China, with a few species in northern Indochina and in the Himalayas. Some of the species have become naturalized in parts of Asia, Australia, the Americas, and southern Europe.
Pleioblastus is an East Asian genus of monopodial bamboos in the grass family Poaceae. They are native to China and Japan, and naturalized in scattered places in Korea, Europe, New Zealand, and the Western Hemisphere.
Chimonobambusa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family. They are native to China, Japan, Vietnam, Myanmar, and the Himalayas.
Semiarundinaria is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family.
Sinobambusa is a genus of East Asian bamboo in the grass family. It is native to China and Vietnam. Sinobambusa tootsik also occurs in Japan, having been introduced there during the Tang Dynasty (618–907).
- Sinobambusa baccanensisT.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam
- Sinobambusa farinosa(McClure) T.H.Wen – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Zhejiang
- Sinobambusa henryi(McClure) C.D.Chu & C.S.Chao – Guangdong, Guangxi
- Sinobambusa humilaMcClure – Guangdong
- Sinobambusa incanaT.H.Wen – Guangdong
- Sinobambusa intermediaMcClure – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan
- Sinobambusa nephroauritaC.D.Chu & C.S.Chao – Guangdong, Guangxi, Sichuan
- Sinobambusa rubroligulaMcClure – Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan
- Sinobambusa sat(Balansa) C.S.Chao & Renvoize – Vietnam
- Sinobambusa scabridaT.H.Wen – Guangxi
- Sinobambusa solearis(McClure) T.Q.Nguyen – Vietnam
- Sinobambusa tootsik(Makino) Makino ex Nakai – Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Vietnam; naturalized in Japan including Ryukyu Islands
- Sinobambusa yixingensisC.S.Chao & K.S.Xiao – Jiangsu
Thamnocalamus is a genus of clumping bamboo in the grass family. These species are found from the Himalayas as well as Madagascar and Southern Africa.
Peter Hamilton Raven is an American botanist and environmentalist, notable as the longtime director, now President Emeritus, of the Missouri Botanical Garden.
Yushania is a genus of bamboo in the grass family.
Arundinarieae is a tribe of bamboo in the grass family (Poaceae) containing a single subtribe, Arundinariinae, and 31 genera. These woody bamboos occur in areas with warm temperate climates in southeastern North America, Subsaharan Africa, South Asia and East Asia. The tribe forms a lineage independent of the tropical woody bamboos (Bambuseae) and the tropical herbaceous bamboos (Olyreae).
Portunus trituberculatus, the gazami crab, South Korea's blue crab or horse crab, is the most widely fished species of crab in the world. It is found off the coasts of East Asia and is closely related to Portunus armatus.
The zig-zag eel, also known as the tire-track eel, tire-track spiny eel or marbled spiny eel, is a species of ray-finned, spiny eels belonging to the genus Mastacembelus of the family Mastacembelidae, and is native to the riverine fauna of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Viet Nam, Indonesia and other parts of South East Asia. The species was described as Macrognathus armatus by Lacepède in 1800. Other common names for this popular aquarium species are leopard spiny eel and white-spotted spiny eel. This species is not only a popular aquarium fish but also as a food fish in its country of origin.
Fritillaria pallidiflora is an Asian species of bulbous flowering plant in the lily family Liliaceae, native to Xinjiang, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. The common name frequently used is Siberian fritillary, a misnomer because the species does not grow in the wild in Siberia.
Ligulariopsis is a genus of flowering plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family.
Sinoleontopodium is a genus of Tibetan plants in the pussy's-toes tribe within the daisy family.
Heterolamium is a genus of plants in the family Lamiaceae, first described in 1965. The 2 known species are both endemic to China.
Chimonobambusa tumidissinoda is a bamboo species, endemic to southwest Sichuan and northeast Yunnan, China, that has been used for walking sticks since the Han Dynasty. Its culms are 2.5–6 meters in height and 1–3 cm in diameter, with large disk-like nodes.
Iris curvifolia is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus of Iris, and in the Psammiris section. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from China. It has sickle-shaped long leaves, short stem and yellow or bright yellow flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
Iris psammocola is a plant species in the genus Iris, it is also in the subgenus Iris and in the section Pseudoregelia. It is a rhizomatous perennial, from China. It has grass-like leaves, short stems, yellow flowers. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant in temperate regions.
Salix divergentistyla is a shrub or tree from the genus of willow (Salix) with mostly 3 to 4.5 centimeters long leaf blades. The natural range of the species is in Tibet.
Osmanthus armatus, also known by the common name devil wood or Chinese vernacular name 红柄木犀 is a species in the genus Osmanthus in the family Oleaceae. It is native to China, specifically the west or central and southeast.
