金竹Phyllostachys sulphurea (Carr.) A. et C. Riv

别名：刚竹;黄竿;黄金间碧玉竹;黄金竹;黄皮刚竹;黄皮绿筋竹;黄皮台竹;黄皮竹;黄竹;

科名：禾本科 Gramineae

属名：刚竹属 Phyllostachys

《中国植物志》第9(1)卷251页
  1. 金竹（李衎竹谱详录）
  Phyllostachys sulphurea (Carr.) A. et C. Riv. in Bull. Soc. Acclim. III. 5: 773. 1878; Mitford. Bamb. Gard. 122. 1896; C. S. Chao et S. A. Renvoize in Kew Bull. 43 (3): 418. 1988;中国竹谱81页. 1988.——Bambusa sulfurea Carr. in Rev. Hort. 1873: 379. 1873.——Phyllostachys castilloni var. holochrysa Pfitz. in Deut. Dendr. Ges. Mitt. 14: 60. 1905.——P. quilioi A. et C. Riv. var. castillonis-holochrysa Regel ex H. de Leh., Bamb. 1: 118. 1906.——P.mitis A. et C. Riv. var. sulphurea (Carr.) H. de Leh. in 1.c. 2: 214. pl.8. 1907.——P. bambusoides Sieb. et Zucc. var. castilloni-holochrysa (Pfitz.) H. de Leh. in Act. Congr. Int. Bot. Brux. 2: 228. 1910——P. reticulata (Rupr.) C. Koch. var. sulphurea (Carr.) Makino in Bot. Mag. Tokyo 26:24. 1912.——P. bambusoides var. sulphurea Makino ex Tsuboi, Illus.Jap. Sp. Bamb. ed. 2: 7. pl. 5. 1916.——P. reticulata var. holochrysa (Pfitz.) Nakai in Journ. Jap. Bot. 9: 341. 1933.——P. bambusoides cv. Allgold McClure in Journ. Arn. Arb. 37: 193. 1956. et in Agr. Handb. USDA No. 114: 23. 1957.——P. viridis (Young) McClure, f. youngii C. D. Chu et C. S. Chao in Act. Phytotax. Sin. 18 (2): 169. 1980, non P. viridis cv. Robert Young McClure 1956.

《Flora of China》 Vol. 22 (2006)
Phyllostachys sulphurea  (Carrière) Rivière & C. Rivière
金竹   jin zhu
Culms 6–15 m, 4–10 cm in diam.; internodes green or sulfur-yellow, usually with yellow or green stripes, 20–45 cm, initially thinly white powdery, glabrous, with small holes or crystalline spots (visible under 10 × lens); wall ca. 5 mm thick; nodal ridge not prominent or nearly so at unbranched nodes in larger culms; sheath scar slightly prominent, thin. Culm sheaths yellow or yellow-brown with green veins and brown rounded or more irregular spots of various sizes, thinly white powdery, glabrous; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule green-yellow, arcuate or truncate, margin pale green or white ciliate; blade reflexed, green with orange margins, narrowly triangular to linear, weakly crinkled. Leaves 2–5 per ultimate branch; sheath subglabrous or distally puberulent; auricles and oral setae usually well developed; blade oblong-lanceolate to lanceolate, 5.6–13 × 1.1–2.2 cm. Inflorescence not known. New shoots May. 2n = 48*.
* Anhui, Fujian, Henan, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Shandong, Zhejiang [cultivated in Japan, N Africa, Europe, and NorthAmerica].
The hard but rather brittle culms are used in house construction and for handles of farm tools. The species is commonly planted for ornament.