Stems caespitose, erect, simple, rigid, finely wrinkled, 6-7 dm high, 2-2.75 mm in diam. at the middle; leaf-sheaths soon falling, oblong, acute, mucronate, coriaceous, striate, chestnut-brown, 2.5-3.5 cm long; male inflorescence paniculate-cymose, oblong, densely many-flowered, 3-4 cm long; spathes subpersistent, oblong, acute, mucronate, coriaceous, smooth, chestnut-brown, about 1 cm long; spathellae inconspicuous, ovate; spikelets ovate, compressed, 2-5-flowered, 4-6 mm long; barren bracts 3-4, ovate, smaller than the fertile; fertile bracts closely convolute, broadly ovate, acute, cartilaginous, minutely pitted on the upper part, 3 mm long; perianth sessile, oblong, rounded on the dorsal side and flattened on the ventral side, 4-4.5 mm long; outer segments ovate, subacute, cartilaginous; the lateral slightly carinate; inner segments oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, twice as long as the outer; female inflorescence resembling that in the male plant, but broader; spathes as in the male; spathellae ovate, acute, about 3 mm long; spikelets approximate, shortly pedicellate, ovate, 2-3-flowered, 6-7 mm long; barren bracts about 3, smaller than the fertile; fertile bracts broadly ovate, obtuse, bluntly mucronulate, coriaceous, 3-3.5 mm long; perianth ovate, rounded on the dorsal side and flattened on the ventral side, 4-5 mm long; segments ovate, subacute, coriaceous, thinner at the margins; the outer-lateral keeled, sometimes shortly and sparsely villous on the keel; inner segments exceeding the outer by about 1 mm; ovary oblong, obtusely 3-lobed, 3-celled; styles separated at the base.
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