Perennial climbing rhizomatous bamboo, woody culms to 12m, culm-sheaths to 130mm x 65mm, leaves to 95mm x 11mm, pubescent above, hairy beneath. Racemes to 60mm x 11mm, spikelets to 20mm x 4mm, scabrous lower glumes to 7.5mm long, scabrous upper glumes to 8mm long, lower lemma to 12mm long, coriaceous fertile lemma to 12mm long