Herb, annual, 2–11 cm high. Leaves basal, tufted; sheath 2–5 mm long, glabrous to pilose; lamina straight, linear, 4–30 mm long, c. 0.4 mm wide, glabrous or papillose. Cataphyll obtuse, 3–7 mm long. Scape terete, 1.5–10 mm long, glabrous. Heads terete, narrowly ovoid to pyriform, 1.6–2.5 mm wide. Primary bracts subopposite, separated by an internode to 2 mm long, glabrous or papillose, herbaceous, tightly sheathing; outer bract with basal sheath 2.5–6 mm long, contracted into a filiform lamina 0.5–3.5 mm long; inner bract similar, slightly smaller. Secondary bracts 2 per pseudanthium, 2–4 mm long, acute. Pseudanthia 4–12, all bisexual. Stamen free or adnate to gynophore; anther 1–1.8 mm long. Carpels 4–7; styles connate below middle; papillae simple, c. 0.03 mm long. Seed ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long.
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