The flower buds are ovoid and covered in a short tomentose pubescence. Culm leaves are deciduous with dense pubescence. The shoots are orange-brown, glabrous or with scattered pubescence. Underneath the abdominal fold is a dense mass of buffy-white scented cottony pubescence. The pubescence on the male's gaster is white and yellowish. The petals are narrow and folded cylindrically and the bracts have a cobwebby pubescence. The abdomen has reddish segments and a silky pubescence. The head and pronotum are orange and shiny, with fine pubescence visible on the head. They are dark green, stiff and leathery, and often scurfy underneath with yellow-brown pubescence. The leaves have varying degrees of hairiness (pubescence). The shoots are green-grey at first, maturing pinkish-grey, with scattered fine pubescence. The shoots are orange-red with dense velvety pubescence. Arista for the most part thin with short sparse pubescence. Leaflets are smooth, with waxen coating or slight pubescence, predominantly narrow. The shoots are orange-brown, with variably scattered to dense pubescence.