Cyperus tabularis Schrad.

Perennial herb, 0.07-0.32 m high, long-rhizomatous. Leaf blades 1.7-4.4 mm wide, flat to V-shaped. Culm scapose, 3-angled, 0.9-2.1 mm in diam. Inflorescence a simple anthela, expanded but sometimes contracted to varying degrees, of 3-9 spikes, spikes broadly ovoid to spherical, 8-19 x 8-18 mm. Subtending bracts 4-6, leaf-like. Spikelets densely crowded, ± compressed, narrowly ovate, 3.9-8.0 x 0.9-1.9 mm, 3-8-flowered. Glumes imbricate, ovate when flattened, 2.7-3.9 mm long, keel non-excurrent or excurrent into minute blunt point. Flowering time Oct.-Mar. (June. Nutlet oblong-elliptical, ± 1.5 x 0.7 mm, 3-angled, brown, surface minutely reticulate.