Perennial bamboo with climbing and arching or decumbent culms to 1.25m, leaves to 140mm x 28mm scabrous both surfaces, axillary panicles to 100mm x 20mm, male spikelets below single female spikelet, female spikelet to 24mm long with glumes to 20mm long, male spikelets to 5.7mm x 0.8mm