Perennial with very short rhizome. Stems tufted, firm, triquetrous, smooth, 30-60 cm by 2-3 mm. Leaves several, rigid, linear, canaliculate at the base, otherwise flat, longer than the stems, gradually long-acuminate, with 3 more prominent nerves, 8-11 mm wide. Inflorescence subcompound, loose, up to 8 by 6 cm. Involucral bracts 3-4, patent, much over-topping the inflorescence, the longest up to 70 cm. Primary rays 6-7, spreading, slender, up to 4 cm; secondary rays very short. Spikelets subdigitately arranged, 3-7 together, stellately spreading, linear, subcompressed, 14-22-flowered, up to 20 by c. 2 mm; rachilla straight, hardly winged, persistent; internodes c. 1 mm. Glumes subcoriaceous, distant, slightly (up to⅓) imbricate, oblong-ovate, with truncate or slightly emarginate, excurved apex, keeled, minutely mucronulate, scabrid on the upper part of the keel, with fuscous sides and whitish hyaline margins, 2½-2¾ by 1¾-2 mm. Stamens 3; anthers linear, c. 1 mm, with short, smooth appendage of the connective. Style very short, 1/5-¼ mm; stigmas 3. Nut trigonous, ellipsoid, brownish, c. 1¾ by 1 mm.
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