Herbs, small, tufted, annual. Hairs stiff, unbranched. Leaves all basal, 1–3-veined, with membranous to hyaline open sheathing bases and linear to subulate laminae; ligule absent. Scape terminal, erect, terete, glabrous, consisting of a single internode. Inflorescence a terminal laterally compressed spike; rachis short, flexuose, bearing distichous herbaceous bracts enclosing sessile partial inflorescences or solitary flowers; primary bracts 1 or 2; distal bracts 6–18, imbricate, 3-veined, with hyaline margins, all similar, successively smaller, each becoming inrolled around a fruit and deciduous with it. Male flower with a short secondary bract; filament capillary. Female flower 1 in each distal bract. Fruit an indehiscent follicle. Seed fusiform.
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