Perennial herb, tufted to long-rhizomatous, up to 0.3 m high. Leaf blades erect, rigid, succulent, up to 3 mm wide, flat or C-shaped. Culm ridged, terete, up to 2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a terminal, compact head, up to 15 x 12 mm. Subtending bracts 2(3), suberect, with bases dilated, partly enveloping inflorescence, with rigid blade-like apex up to 50 mm long. Spikelets up to 6-flowered. Glumes ovate, ± 5 x 2 mm, keels excurrent. Flowering time Aug.-Dec., June, July. Nutlet obovate to elliptical, including gynophore ± 2 mm long, 3-angled to globose, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore large, 2-lobed.
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