| ma chiku (China & Japan), known as dendrocalamus latiflorus | |
| ma chiku (Japan, Suzuki), known as dendrocalamus latiflorus | |
| madake (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides | |
| madake kin (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides kawadana | |
| madake kinmei chiku (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides castillonis | |
| madake kon shimadake (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides sub-variegata | |
| madake ogon chiku (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides holochrysa | |
| madake okina (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys bambusoides albo-variegata | |
| mai lai law, known as dendrocalamus membranaceus | |
| mai sa lawn, known as bambusa polymorpha | |
| maisang, known as dendrocalamus membranaceus | |
| makinoi, known as phyllostachys makinoi | |
| male bamboo, known as dendrocalamus strictus | |
| malingensis, known as bambusa malingensis | |
| mao chu (Japan), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | |
| mao zhu (China), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | |
| marbled bamboo, known as chimonobambusa marmorea | |
| marmorea, known as chimonobambusa marmorea | |
| medake (Japan), known as pleioblastus simonii | |
| medake shiro shima (Japan), known as pleioblastus simonii variegatus | |
| megalophylla nobilis, known as sasa megalophylla nobilis | |
| meguro chiku (Japan), known as phyllostachys nigra megurochiku | |
| melocalamus arrectus | |
| melocanna baccifera | |
| melocanna bambusoides, known as melocanna baccifera | |
| melocanna humilis | |
| membranaceus, known as dendrocalamus membranaceus | |
| menstruocalamus sichanensis | |
| merrill bamboo (Phillippines), known as bambusa merrillii | |
| meshang (Thailand), known as dendrocalamus membranaceus | |
| metake (Japan), known as pseudosasa japonica | |
| mexican weeping bamboo, known as otatea aztecorum | |
| meyeri, known as phyllostachys meyeri | |
| miyako zasa (Japan), known as sasa nipponica | |
| mizudake (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys nigra henon | |
| monastery bamboo, known as thrysostachys siamensis | |
| morodudake (China & Japan), known as bambusa oldhamii | |
| moso (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | |
| moso chiku (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens | |
| moso chiku ginmei (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens ginmei | |
| moso chiku shima (China & Japan), known as phyllostachys heterocycla pubescens bicolor | |
| muli bamboo (Thailand), known as melocanna baccifera | |
| multiplex, known as bambusa multiplex | |
| murasaki take (Japan, Suzuki), known as phyllostachys nigra | |
| murielae, known as fargesia murielae | |
| mutabilis, known as bambusa mutabilis | |
| mutsuore dake (Japan, Suzuki), known as phyllostachys bambusoides slender crookstem |