Bamboo with clambering or pendent culm tips. Glabrous leaves to 70mm x 12mm. Inflorescence a spike to 30mm long, one or two spikelets, puberulent, lower glume 2mm x 1mm, puberulent upper glume 7mm x 3mm, lower floret to 10mm x 3mm, lemma 7mm x 4mm. Light brown shiny fruit 6mm x 1.5mm.