Perennial woody scandent bamboo to 12m, culm sheaths to 540mm long, culm sheath blabe erect to 170mm long, leaf sheaths hispid, leaf blades to 153mm x 15mm. Panicles to 20mm long, spikelets to 10mmlong, lower glumes to 1.8mm long, upper glumes to 2.5mm, lemma of sterile florets to 8.9mm long, fertile lemma coriaceous to 9mm long