Stems very short; leaves olivaceous, tufted, spreading or recurved, linear-lanceolate, 2.3-6 cm. long, 2.5-3 mm. wide at the middle, very thin-membranous or subpellucid, subulate-acute or acuminate at the apex (the tip itself bluntish), fenestrately 5-to 7-nerved (the fenestrations very conspicuous on both sur-faces), glabrate; peduncles aggregate, very numerous, 19-40 per plant, slender, olivaceous, 4-9.5 cm. long, 3-costate, glabrous; sheaths loose, 1.5-4 cm. long, rather obscurely striate and fenestrate, bibbed at the apex, the blades short and sharply acute, scarious-margined; heads dark gray, hemispheric or globose, 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, slightly compressed in dry-ing; involucral bractlets light brown, broad, elliptic, acute, glabrous; receptacle long-pilose; receptacular bractlets light brown (or hyaline at the base), spatulate, acute or acuminate, sparsely pubescent on the back; staminate florets: pedicellate; sepals 2, light brown toward the apex, hyaline below, oblong or subobovate, concave, bluntish; petal-tube pale stramineous, its lobes very minute; anthers 4, black, roundish; pistillate florets: short-pedicellate; sepals 2, brown, spatulate, navicular, subacute, broadly winged-carinate at the middle, not crested, sparsely pilose at the apex; petals 2, pale stramineous, unequal, obovate, blunt, not notched, glabrous; ovary long-stalked, 2-ovulate; style shorter than the ovary; stigmas 2, longer than the ovary.
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