Culms 25-60 cm. high, brownish at the base; leaves numerous, clustered near the base, the leaf blades 2.5-8 mm. wide, glaucous, coriaceous, stiff, long-attenuate; inflorescence not or but sparingly compound, the spikes usually 4-10, androgynous, linear-cylindric, 2-6 cm. long, 3.5-5 mm. wide, the pistillate part 20-to 40-flowered; scales lance-ovate, usually rough-awned, purplish-black; perigynia oblong-ovate, 2.5 mm. long, 1 mm. wide, membranaceous, plano-convex, straw-colored and strongly purplish-splashed, obscurely striate ventrally, finely several-nerved dorsially, serrulate above, rounded at the base, abruptly beaked, the beak straight, 0.5 mm. long, bidentate, the teeth short, scabrous within.
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