Culms 1–5 m, 0.5–1.4 cm in diam.; internodes terete, 15–23 cm, initially sparsely white powdery, longitudinal ribs weakly conspicuous; wall 1.5–2.5 mm thick, cavity filled with lamellate pith; supra-nodal ridges level or weakly prominent; sheath scar prominent. Branches 3–10 per node, deflexed, solid. Culm sheaths deciduous, distally asymmetrically rounded, leathery, glabrous or sometimes distally gray setose, margins initially yellow-brown ciliolate, longitudinal ribs conspicuous; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule arcuate or truncate, 0.5–1 mm, glabrous; blade reflexed, triangular, narrowly triangular, or linear, glabrous, margins level or rolled. Leaves 1 or 2(–6) per ultimate branch; sheath glabrous; auricles absent, oral setae present, yellow-brown; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm, glabrous; blade lanceolate, 6–10 × 0.8–1.2 cm, glabrous, secondary veins 3-or 4-paired, transverse veins distinct, base nearly rounded or broadly cuneate, one margin spinescent-serrulate, other margin obscurely so. Inflorescence unknown. New shoots May.
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A bamboo. It grows 1-5 m tall. The culms are up to 1.4 cm across. The internodes are 15-23 cm long. There are 3-10 branches at each node. There are 1-2 leaves on the last branch. The leaf blades are 6-10 cm long by 1 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 2,800-3,000 metres.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in central China between 2,800-3,000 m altitude. In Sichuan.
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