Chimonobambusa

Rhizomatous perennials; culms erect, woody, mostly branched above; nodes obvious, sometimes with roots or thorns; internodes terete or channelled. Culm leaves with sheaths persistent or deciduous, blades often reduced; leaves of upper branches with blades persistent or deciduous at ligule; ligule membranous, sometimes fringed.Inflorescence a panicle subtended by bracts or spathes. Spikelets pedicellate or sessile, linear or elliptic, 3–12-flowered, laterally compressed, disarticulating between florets at maturity; glumes 2, equal, occasionally reduced to 1, or sometimes apparently several, membranous, shorter than the spikelet, not strongly keeled; lemmas membranous or papery, dorsally rounded, 3–13-nerved acute to mucronate; palea shorter to slightly longer than lemma, 6–10-nerved; anthers 3. Caryopsis with dry or fleshy pericarp.