Rootstocks woody; culms 60-100 cm. high; leaves numerous, clustered towards the base, the leaf blades thick, stiff, light green, long-attenuate, 2.5-6 mm. wide; spikes very many, in 6-10 erect peduncled panicles, androgynous, 5-10 mm. long, 4-6 mm. wide; scales ovate, many-striate, short-awned to obtuse; perigynia elliptic-obovoid, sharply triangular, not inflated, bright green, 2-keeled and ob-scurely nerved, stipitate, abruptly beaked, the beak shallowly bidentate, half the length of the body or less.
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