Himalayacalamus falconeri (hook.F. ex Munro) Keng F.

Rhizome neck 2–3 cm, 8–20 mm in diam., internodes 1.5–3 mm. Culms 3–3.5 m, 1–1.2 cm in diam.; internodes terete, 15–19 cm, initially glaucous and white powdery; culms hollow; wall 1.5–2.5 mm thick, cavity with lamellate pith on inner wall; supra-nodal ridges prominent; sheath scar prominent, initially densely setose. Branches many, deflexed, slender, without secondary branching. Culm sheaths deciduous, narrowly triangular-rounded, leathery, glabrous or setose, longitudinal ribs conspicuous distally, distal margins yellow-brown ciliolate, apex asymmetrical; auricles and oral setae absent; ligule truncate or convex, 1–2 mm, glabrous; blade readily deciduous, linear-lanceolate, revolute, adaxially densely yellow-brown setose proximally, articulate. Leaves 4–6 per ultimate branch; sheath margins yellow-brown ciliolate; auricles absent; oral setae erect, gray-brown, 1–2 mm, rigid, undulate; ligule truncate, ca. 1 mm; blade lanceolate, 7–11 × 0.6–1.2 cm, abaxial midrib white-gray hairy proximally, secondary veins 3-or 4-paired, transverse veins distinct, base broadly cuneate or rarely rounded, margin spinescent-serrulate. Inflorescence unknown. New shoots May.

It is a temperate plant. In Nepal it grows between 2000-2500 m altitude. It grows in cool, broad-leaved forests. It can tolerate temperatures down to-12°C. It does best in light shade and moist soils.

The tender shoots are cooked as a vegetable.

The plant is grown by splitting the rhizome.