Herb, annual, forming hemispherical tufts to 2.5 cm diam. Leaves crowded, glabrous; sheath 0.8–2 mm long, lamina linear, terete, 5–9 mm long, c. 0.2 mm wide. Cataphyll acute, 1–2 mm long. Scape absent. Heads subsessile, terete, cylindric with a prominent oblique node at the base, c. 0.5 mm wide. Primary bracts opposite, glabrous, closely sheathing; outer bract with a scarious-hyaline basal sheath 1.5–3 mm long passing into a linear lamina 2.5–4 mm long; inner bract 1.5–2 mm long, subhyaline with a recurved herbaceous apex to 0.6 mm long. Secondary bracts absent. Pseudanthium 1, bisexual. Stamen free; anther 0.5–0.7 mm long. Carpels 3–6; styles connate below the middle; papillae simple, minute. Seed ovoid, c. 0.4 mm long.
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