Climbing vine-like bamboo to 7m, delicate, clinging to vegetation, rough to the touch. Scandent woody culms, pendulous at tip. Leaves to 110mm x 18mm. Racemes to 35mm long, spikelets to 13mm long, lower glumes to 3.3mm long, upper glume to 4.8mm long, fertile lemma to 6.5mm long.