A small forest bamboo, common in Chhukha district from 1,000m to 2,000m, potentially up to 1.5cm in diameter and 4m in height, but usually much smaller because of heavy browsing by animals. It can easily be recognised by the dense ring of brown hairs at the base of the culm sheath and on the culm node. The young culms also have a dense coating of slippery wax over the entire internode. The culm sheaths are thin and papery, and on small culms of heavily browsed clumps they are often convex at the shoulders rather than concave. All culm sheaths are rough inside at the
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