Bambusa emeiensis L.C.Chia & H.L.Fung

Culms 5–10(–12) m, 5–8 cm in diam., apically long pendulous; internodes 15–30(–60) cm, initially stiffly pale brown strigose; wall 8–12 mm thick; nodes flat. Branches absent from lower nodes, many from mid-culm, central ones slightly prominent. Culm sheaths deciduous, leathery, both pale pubescent and dark brown spinous-hairy, apex concave; auricles minute or absent; ligule 2–5 mm, fimbriate; blade reflexed or horizontal, base 1/3–1/2 as wide as sheath apex, both surfaces hispid. Leaves variable in size; sheaths glabrous; ligule truncate, 1–1.5 mm; auricles and oral setae absent; blade narrowly lanceolate, 10–30 × 1–3 cm. Pseudospikelets 1.2–1.5 cm; prophylls 1-keeled; bracts 2 or 3; florets 3–5, with a terminal sterile floret. Rachilla internodes abbreviated, apical ones ca. 2 mm, falling together. Glumes absent or 1, 6–7 mm; lemma 0.8–1 cm; palea 7–9 mm; lodicules 3(or 4). Anthers 4–6 mm. Ovary ca. 1 mm; styles to 4 mm; stigmas 2–4, 3–5 mm. Caryopsis 7–8 mm. New shoots Jun–Sep, fl. Jul–Sep. 2n = 76*.

It is a subtropical plant. It grows in river valleys and hilly areas between 800-2,100 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan.

Can be grown by cuttings, divisions or seedlings.