Perennial bamboo with scandent woody culms to 1.5m, without nodal roots, glabrous or hispid culm sheaths to 220mm long, triangular glabrous culm sheath blade to 60mm long, glabrous leaf blades to 144mm x 18mm. Panicles to 140mm long, spikelets to 14mm long, lemma to 7.3mm long