Name: Italienisches Pfahlrohr (DE); Spanisches Rohr; Giant Cane (EN); Cana de Castilla, Guajana (ES)
Distribution: Germany [I]; Portugal [I]; Spain [I]; Gibraltar [I]; Baleares [I]; France [I]; Corsica [I]; Sardinia [I]; Italy [I]; Sicily [I]; Pantelleria [I]; Isole Pelagie [I] (Lampedusa [I]); San Marino [I]; Slovenia [I]; Croatia [I]; Bosnia & Hercegovina [I]; Montenegro [I]; Serbia; Kosovo [I]; North Macedonia [I]; Albania [I]; European Turkey; Greece (lowlands, incl. most islands); Crete; European Russia; Morocco; Algeria; Tunisia; Libya; Egypt (Desert Oases, Great Southwestern Desert, NE-Egypt, Nile Delta, Nile Valley, NW-coastal Egypt); Azores [I] (Santa Maria Isl. [I], Sao Miguel Isl. [I], Terceira [I], Graciosa [I], Sao Jorge [I], Pico [I], Faial [I], Flores Isl. [I], Corvo Isl. [I]); Madeira [I] (Madeira Isl. [I], Ilhas Desertas [I], Porto Santo Isl. [I]); Canary Isl. [I] (Lanzarote [I], Fuerteventura [I], Gran Canaria [I], Tenerife [I], La Gomera [I], Hierro [I], La Palma [I]); Cape Verde Isl. [I] (Santo Antao Isl. [I], Sao Vicente Isl. [I], Ilha de Sao Nicolau [I], Sal Isl. [I], Ilha de Maio [I], Ilha de Sao Tiago [I], Fogo Isl. [I], Ilha Brava [I]); D.R.Congo [Zaire] [I]; Zimbabwe [I]; Namibia [I]; Botswana [I]; South Africa [I] (widespread); St. Helena [I]; Madagascar [I]; Kazakhstan; Turkmenistan; Uzbekistan; Tajikistan; Georgia [Caucasus]; Azerbaijan; East Aegaean Isl. (widespread, incl. Rhodos); Turkey (NE-Anatolia, NW-Anatolia: Bithynia, SSW-Anatolia, SW-Anatolia, W-Anatolia, WN-Anatolia); Iraq (NW-Iraq, SE-Iraq: Mesopotamia); Iran (N-Iran, NE-Iran, W-Iran); Afghanistan (Badghys, Baghlan, Bamyan, Helmand, Kabul, Paktia / Khost); Cyprus (C-Mountains, E-Cyprus, N-Cyprus); Lebanon (coastal W-Lebanon); Syria (coastal W-Syria, C-Syrian Desert, NW-Syria); Israel (coastal W-Israel, Rift Valley, N-Israel, N-Negev Desert, Judean Desert); Sinai peninsula (C-Sinai, N-Sinai, S-Sinai); Jordania (S-Jordania, W-Jordania); Saudi Arabia (C-Saudi Arabia, NE-Saudi Arabia, Hejaz); Qatar; United Arab Emirates; Yemen (Tihama, W-Yemen); China (Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Sichuan, Yunnan, Zhejiang); Tibet; South Korea [I]; Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu); Ryukyu Isl.; Bonin Isl. (Chichijima); Pakistan (Sind, Baluchistan, Kurram, N.W.Frontier Prov., Chitral, Swat, Pakistani Punjab, Hazara); Nepal; Bhutan; India (Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Nagaland, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal); Sri Lanka; Bangladesh; Andaman Isl.; Myanmar; Thailand; Laos; Cambodia; Vietnam; peninsular Malaysia; Philippines (Luzon, Samar); Java; Moluccas [I]; Christmas Isl. [Austr.] [I]; Australia [I] (Western Australia [I], Northern Territory [I], South Australia [I], Queensland [I], New South Wales [I]); Norfolk Isl. [I]; New Zealand [I]; New Caledonia [I]; Vanuatu [I]; Tonga [I] (Lifuka [I]); Fiji [I]; [Western] Samoa [I] (´Upolu [I]); Nauru [I]; Cook Isl. [I] (Rarotonga [I]); Society Isl. [I] (Huahine [I], Raiatea [I]); Palau [I] (Koror [I]); Guam [I]; Fed. States of Micronesia [I] (Pohnpei [I]); Hawaii [I] (Kauai [I], Oahu [I], Maui [I], Hawaii Isl. [I]); USA [I] (Alabama [I], Arkansas [I], Arizona [I], California [I], Delaware [I], Florida [I], Georgia [I], Illinois [I], Kansas [I], Kentucky [I], Louisiana [I], Maryland [I], Missouri [I], Mississippi [I], North Carolina [I], New Mexico [I], Nevada [I], Oklahoma [I], South Carolina [I], Tennessee [I], Texas [I], Utah [I], Virginia [I], West Virginia [I]); Mexico [I]; Guatemala [I]; El Salvador [I]; Nicaragua [I]; Costa Rica [I]; Trinidad & Tobago [I]; Colombia [I]; Venezuela [I]; Surinam [I]; Ecuador [I]; Peru [I]; Bolivia [I]; Brazil [I]; Paraguay [I]; Uruguay [I]; Argentina [I]; Chile [I] (Arica y Parinacota [I], Tarapacá [I], Antofagasta [I], Atacama [I], Coquimbo [I], Metropolitana de Santiago [I], O´Higgins [I], Maule [I], Ñuble [I], Biobío [I], Araucanía [I]); Desventuradas Isl. [I]; Juan Fdz. Isl. [I]
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= Aira bengalensis (Retz.) J.F.Gmel.; Syst. Nat., ed. 13bis: 174 (1791)
= Amphidonax bengalensis (Retz.) Nees ex Steud.; Lindl. Introd. Nat. Syst. ed. II. 449 (1836)
= Amphidonax bifaria (Retz.) Steud.; Syn. Pl. Glumac. [Steudel] 1: 197 (1854), pro syn.
= Arundo aegyptia Delile; Descr. Egypte, Hist. Nat. 4 (1813), nomen
= Arundo aegyptiaca E.Vilm.; Fl. Pleine Terre, ed. 3: 984 (1870), pro syn.
= Arundo bambusifolia Hook.f.; Fl. Brit. India [J.D.Hooker] 7: 303 (1896)
= Arundo bengalensis Retz.; Observ. Bot. [Retzius] 5: 20 (1789)
= Arundo bifaria Retz.; Observ. Bot. [Retzius] 5: 21 (1789)
= Arundo coleotricha (Hack.) Honda; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 41: 14 (1927)
= Arundo coleotricha var. barbigera Honda; Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 41: 14 (1927)
= Arundo donax var. angustifolia Döll; Fl. Bras. [Martius] 2(3): 48 (1878)
= Arundo donax var. barbigera (Honda) Ohwi; Acta Phytotax. Geobot. 10: 265 (1941)
= Arundo donax var. coleotricha Hack.; Bull. Herb. Boissier 7: 724 (1899)
= Arundo donax var. lanceolata Döll; Fl. Bras. [Martius] 2(3): 48 (1878)
= Arundo donax var. procerior Kunth; Révis. Gramin. 1: 75 (1829), nomen
= Arundo glauca Bubani; Fl. Pyren. [Bubani] 4: 303 (1901) [nom. illeg., non M. Bieb. 1808]
= Arundo latifolia Salisb.; Prodr. Stirp. Chap. Allerton 24 (1796)
= Arundo longifolia Salisb. ex Hook.f.; Fl. Brit. India [J.D.Hooker] 7: 303 (1896), pro syn.
= Arundo sativa Lam.; Fl. Franç. [Lamarck] 3: 616 (1779)
= Arundo scriptoria L.; Amoen. Acad., Linnaeus ed. 4: 150 (1759), nomen
= Arundo triflora Roxb.; Icon. Pict. Pl. Rar. 853.
= Bambos fax (Lour.) Poir.; Encycl. [J.Lamarck et al.] 8: 704 (1808)
= Bambusa fax (Lour.) Steud.; Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel], ed. 1: 100 (1821)
= Bambusa humilis Steud.; Nomencl. Bot. [Steudel], ed. 2, 1: 183 (1840), pro syn.
= Beesha fax (Lour.) Schult.f.; Syst. Veg., ed. 15bis [Roemer & Schultes] 7: 1336 (1830)
= Beesha humilis Kunth; Enum. Pl. [Kunth] 1: 434 (1833), nom. illeg. superfl.
= Cynodon donax (L.) Raspail; Ann. Sci. Nat. (Paris) 5: 302 (1825)
= Donax arundinaceus P.Beauv.; Ess. Agrostogr. 78, 152, 161 (1812) [nom. nov.]
= Donax bengalensis (Retz.) P.Beauv.; Ess. Agrostogr. 78 (1812)
= Donax bifarius (Retz.) Spreng.; Neue Entdeck. Pflanzenk. 2: 73 (1821)
= Donax donax (L.) Asch. & Graebn.; Fl. Nordostdeut. Flachl. 101 (1898), nom. inval.
= Donax sativus C.Presl; Cyper. Gram. Sicul. 16 (1818), nom. illeg., et Cyper. Gramin. Sicul. 32 (1820)
= Melocanna humilis Roep. ex Trin.; Clav. Agrostogr. Antiq. 105 (1822), nom. illeg. superfl.
= Scolochloa arundinacea (P.Beauv.) Mert. & W.D.J.Koch; Deutschl. Fl. [Mertens & W.D.J.Koch], ed. 3, 1(2): 530 (1823), nom. illeg.
= Scolochloa donax (L.) Gaudin; Fl. Helv. 1: 202 (1828)