Herb, annual, 2.5–9 cm high. Leaves basal, tufted, with sheath 2–3 mm long, strigose; lamina linear-subulate, subterete, 8–20 mm long, c. 0.3 mm wide, sparsely pilose to glabrous. Cataphyll obtuse, 2–4 mm long. Scape terete, 1–8 cm long, glabrous. Heads ovoid, 2–2.5 mm wide. Primary bracts subopposite, similar, gaping at anthesis; basal sheath broadly cymbiform, 2.5–3.5 mm long, herbaceous, densely strigose, abruptly contracted into arcuate foliar points 2–3 mm long, obtuse, glabrous. Secondary bracts 2 per pseudanthium, c. 2.5 mm long, obtuse, erose. Pseudanthia 8–12, all bisexual. Stamen free; anther 0.8–1 mm long. Carpels 5–8; styles connate below middle; papillae branched, 0.04–0.1 mm long. Seed ovoid, c. 0.5 mm long.
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