Dwarf plants; leaves-tufted, erect or spreading, thin-membranous or pellucid, light green, linear, 1-4.5 cm. long, 1-2 mm. wide at the middle, subulate at the apex, often slightly revolute on old leaves, fenestrately many-nerved (the fenestra-tions especially conspicuous beneath), glabrous; peduncles 3 or 4 per plant, slen-der, 1.2-6.5 (-10) ) cm. long, usually rather obscurely 3-costate or striate, subglabrate; heads hemispheric or ovate-conic, dark gray, 2.5-4 mm. in diameter, compressed in drying; involucral bractlets rather few, light stramineous, ovate, blunt, glabrous; receptacle glabrous; receptacular bractlets hyaline, with a grayish median line at the middle on the back, obovate, acute, glabrous; staminate florets: long-pedicellate; sepals 3, nigrescent, spathaceous, the lobes short, often incurved and acute, glabrous; petal-tube pale stramineous, its lobes very minute, glabrous; anthers 6, white, rotund; pistillate florets: pedicellate; sepals 3, hyaline (or grayish toward the apex), narrowly linear, glabrous; petals hyaline, narrowly linear, glabrous; style elongate, longer than the long-stalked ovary; stigmas 3, longer than the ovary.
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