Yi Tongpei

Yi Tongpei
Native name	易同培
Born	1933
20162016
💼 Occupation
Known for	Taxonomy of Chinese temperate woody bamboos

Yi Tongpei (Chinese: 易同培; pinyin: Yì Tóngpéi; 1933 – 2016) was a Chinese botanist who specialised in the taxonomy of temperate woody bamboos of southwestern China.

Life

He was based for most of his career at Sichuan Agricultural University's campus at Dujiangyan, and held a concurrent visiting professorship at the Flowers Research and Development Center of Southwest China of the Chinese Academy of Forestry in Kunming. He sat on the editorial boards of the Journal of Bamboo Research (Zhuzi Yanjiu Huikan) and the related serial Bamboo Research, and served as Deputy Chairman of the Sichuan bamboo industry committee. Under the standard botanical author abbreviation T.P.Yi, he authored or co-authored well over a hundred new species, subspecies and varieties of bamboo, mainly in the genera Yushania, Fargesia, Bashania, Indocalamus, Phyllostachys and Chimonobambusa.

Yi worked primarily on the Sichuan–Yunnan–Tibet region of the Hengduan Mountains, a global centre of bamboo diversity that also includes much of the natural range of the giant panda. His foundational monograph, the Bamboo Flora of Sichuan (四川竹类志, Beijing: China Forestry Publishing House, 1997), remains the standard regional reference and is cited routinely in studies of giant-panda forage and Hengduan bamboo ecology. He went on to co-author, with Shi Junyi, Ma Lisha, Yang Linping, Zhang Yuxiao and Zhou Dequn, the Iconographia Bambusoidearum Sinicarum (中国竹类图志, China Forestry Publishing House, 2008), an illustrated treatment of the bamboos of China that was reviewed in The Canadian Field-Naturalist. A second, expanded English-language edition, Illustrated Flora of Bambusoideae in China, was published in two volumes by Springer Nature between 2017 and 2024.

Among the species that Yi described or revised, several have become important reference taxa for the wider Sino-Himalayan and Northeast Indian bamboo flora, including Fargesia angustissima T.P. Yi (1985), Yushania pauciramificans T.P. Yi, and the transfer of Gamble's Arundinaria rolloana to Yushania rolloana (1983). His name is itself commemorated in the binomial Yushania tongpeii Li, Zhang & Liu (2019), described from northeastern Yunnan, and at genus rank in Tongpeia Stapleton (2021), a small Yunnan genus segregated from Fargesia on phylogenetic grounds. A review of the systematics of Chinese bamboos published in the Journal of Jiangxi Agricultural University in 2025 characterised Yi as a central figure of twentieth-century Chinese bambusology, and described Tongpeia as Stapleton's tribute to his contribution.

External links

• "Yi, Tong Pei". eFloras.
• "Author: T.P.Yi". International Plant Names Index.
• "Harvard University Herbaria – Botanist record: Yi, Tong Pei".

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