Arundinaria macclureana Bar was the first bamboo described in modem taxonomy based on Tibetan material. Since the type bears only flowering branches without critical vegetative characteristics such as rhizomes and culm-sheaths, its identity has long been doubtful. Even so, it provides the type of a newly created genus, Borinda. By checking the type specimens of A. macclureana as well as the type of Fargesia setosa T. P. Yi, which is a species only known by its vegetative state, and by collecting in the field, a conclusion is reached that these two entities are conspecific. Fargesia macclureana, a name published in less-received literature is the correct name for this endemic Tibetan bamboo, although re-evaluation of the relationships within the Thamnocalamus group is needed.