Tufts very dense, very lfy, red, or yellow-green. Culms 6–25–(40) cm. long, < 1 mm. diam., terete, glab., flaccid, occ. much elongating at maturation of fr. and drooping to the ground; basal sheaths dull brown to purple-black. Lvs us. > culms, 0.5–1–(1.5) mm. wide, drooping above, concavo-convex, adaxial surface matt, abaxial surface more deeply coloured and shining, margins scabrid, tips rarely curled. Spikes (4)–5–7–(8), linear-oblong; terminal 1–(2) spikes male, very slender; remaining spikes female occ. with a few male fls at the base, 0.5–2.5 cm. × 3–4 mm., distant, the uppermost 1–2 sessile, the lower on filiform peduncles, often drooping. Glumes (excluding awn) often slightly < utricles, ovate-lanceolate, us. emarginate to more deeply bifid at the top with a rather short scabrid awn, light brown or reddish brown with a paler midrib, membr. Utricles 2.5–3.5 × c. 1 mm., unequally biconvex to ± plano-convex, lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, reddish brown, pale straw-coloured at the base, obscurely ribbed on both faces, becoming smooth when fully mature, lateral nerves us. prominent, margins of upper half sharply serrate, narrowed above to a bifid beak c. 1 mm. long, with slender scabrid crura. Stigmas 3. Nut 1.5–2 mm. long, trigonous, ovoid to oblong-ovoid, dark brown.
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Very leafy dense red or yellow-green tufts to 25 cm high. Leaves concavo-convex, usually > stems, drooping above; sheaths dull brown to purple-black. Female spikes c. 5, distant, ± pedunculate, light brown to red-brown, to 2.5 cm × 3-4 mm. Utricle-beak deeply cleft, scabrid, ± 1 mm long. Stigmas 3.
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