Rhizome neck 6–10 cm. Culms 5–8 m, 2–4 cm in diam.; internodes terete, 28–40 cm, densely white powdery, glabrous or setose below node; wall 2–4 mm thick; supra-nodal ridges level or weakly prominent; sheath scar prominent, glabrous or initially erectly brown setose. Branches 4–7 per node. Culm sheaths gradually deciduous, yellow-brown, leathery, densely brown to dark brown setose, longitudinal ribs prominent, margins densely brown setose, apex sharply narrow; auricles absent; oral setae deciduous; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous, fissured; blade erect, lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, glabrous, margins serrulate. Leaves 5–7 per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous; auricles present; oral setae few; ligule truncate, glabrous; blade lanceolate, 10–15 × 1–1.4(–2.2) cm, abaxially pubescent or glabrous, secondary veins 4-or 5-paired, transverse veins distinct, base cuneate, margins spinescent-serrulate. Inflorescence a raceme, upper part extended from spathe; spikelets 4–7, 2.5–3.2 cm, rachilla 4–5 mm, glabrous or apically white puberulous; florets 3 or 4. Glumes 2, papery, glabrous; lemma glabrous or pilose, apex acuminate; palea keels ciliolate; lodicules ciliate. Anthers 7–9 mm. Ovary yellow-brown, ovoid, glabrous, apex swollen; styles 2; stigma linear. Caryopsis unknown. New shoots May.
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A bamboo. It grows 5-8 m tall and the culms are 2-4 cm across. The internodes are 28-40 cm long. There are 4-7 branches at each node. There are 5-7 leaves on the end branch. The leaf blade is 10-15 cm long by 1-2 cm wide.
We have no specific information, but Fargesia species are generally found as an understorey in evergreen broadleaved to coniferous forest, depending on elevation. This species is found at elevations from 1,900-2,800 metres.
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It is a subtropical plant. It grows in western Yunnan in China between 1,900-2,800 m altitude.
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