Plants perennial (?), tufted, glabrous, the culms 2-5 dm. high, slender; leaves basal, stiff, much shorter than the culms, with reddish sheaths and filiform blades; spikelets 1-3, sessile, terete, acute, subtended by 2 linear bracts, 6-12 mm. long; outer scale of spikelet obscure, narrowly lanceolate, the inner scales larger and fused to form a com-pressed rounded short-acuminate utricle enclosing the style and stamens; style bifid; achene oblong, 1 mm. long, ob-scurely trigonous, densely papillose.
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