Perennial climbing rhizomatous bamboo, woody culms, glabrous leaves to 80mm x 3.5mm, smooth or scaberulous margins. Racemes to 40mm long of yellow flowers, spikelets to 30mm long, lower glumes to 4mm long, upper glumes to 7.5mm long, lower lemma to 11mm long, coriaceous fertile lemma to 13mm long, dark brown fruit to 6.1mm long
Stems used for flutes