Climbing or scrambling woody bamboo to 8m. Glabrous leaves to 250mm x 23mm. Terminal panicle to 200mm long, spikelets to 25mm x 2mm, lower glume to 1.5mm long, upper glume to 2.5mm, syterile lemma to 3mm long, fertile lemma to 5.3mm long, 3 lodicules to 1.5mm long