Climbing woody bamboo, culms to 6m, deciduous culm leaves, golden-reddish culm sheaths to 250mm x 80mm glabrous above & hairy beneath. Glabrous leaves to 100mm x 14mm with hairy margins. Terminal spikes of 17-18 spikelets, spikelets to 14mm x 3mm, lower glume puberulent to 5mm x 1mm, puberulent upper glume to 10mm x 4mm, lemma to 11mm x 5.5mm. Greyish-yellow smooth fruit to 6.5mm x 3mm. Flowering cycle 31 to 33 years