Erect or scandent bamboo, culms to 8m, erect at base & scandent to arching above, culm leaves to 320mm long, glabrous culm sheaths to 300mm long. Foliage leaves to 200mm x 8.5mm, normallt glabrous sometimes hispid towards base of midrib. Panicles to 160mm long with pubescent basal bract 4mm long, falcate spikelets to 6.5mm long, glumes to 0.9mm long. Mucronate glabrous sterile lemmas to 2.9mm long, mucronate glabrous fertile lemmas to 5.7mm long.