Summer-deciduous herb, with leaf-tussocks and scapes to 15 cm high; stems ±underground. Leaves flexible, 15-60 mm long, 0.35-0.85 mm wide; apex acuminate or needle-like, dark brown; margins smooth or minutely scabrous; leaf-base margins widening gradually into sheath, green to pale straw, glabrous, rarely lobed. Scapes 2.5-12.5 cm long, jointed near base, deciduous; head 5-11 mm long, 3-10 mm wide, with 4-16 flowers. Outer bracts of involucre 2-5, the longest 5-24 mm, smooth, the wings entire; inner bracts absent or up to 4, sometimes keeled, brown, with rounded apex. Floral bracts imbricate, usually rounded, dark brown. Perianth lobes linear. Anthers glandular. Testa with low colliculae and lined.
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