Referring to its similarity to the genus Arundinaria.
Slow growing clumping or spreading bamboo, the stems sometimes brownish or purple when exposed to the sun. Leaves clearly tessellated, slightly rough, especially on one margin. Stems with 3-8 upright branches at each node, the branches developing from the base of the stem upwards and the lowermost nodes without branches. Uppermost nodes sometimes with a groove. Sheaths shiny and often purplish. Spikelets with glumes 0 or 1 with 3-6 florets, the upper 1-3 male.
Division.
Hedging and as a windbreak.
Leaves with visible tessellation; stem sheaths soon falling; branches forming from the base of the stems upwards.
About 20 species from eastern Asia.
Source: (2005). Poaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 5. Flowering plants. Monocotyledons. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
