Perennial climbing rhizomatous bamboo, woody culms to 12m, leaf-sheaths glabrous, glabrous leaves to 120mm x 22mm. Racemes to 170mm long of green flowers, spikelets to 19mm, lower glumes to 8.5mm long, upper glumes to 6mm long, lower lemma to 8mm long, coriaceous fertile lemma to 8mm long, lemma surface glabrous
Stems used to make flutes