Climbing bamboo, climbing culms to 3m, culm leaves to 120mm long, culm sheaths to 112mm long, triangular culm sheath blades to 10mm long. Foliage leaves to 71mm x 5mm glabrous above & tomentose beneath. Panicles to 20mm longsubtended by a bracts 1.3mm long, spikelets to 5.8mm long, glumes to 1.7mm long, sterile lemma to 5.2mm long, fertile lemma sparsely pubescent 5mm long.