Perennials, tufted, hard, dark green, c. 1 m or more tall. Rhizomes compact, horizontal; thick roots covered with velamen of root-hairs. Stems erect, terete, hard. Leaves cauliform, terete, pungent, few per shoot, about as long as stems, sheaths auriculate; cataphylls shiny. Inflorescence pseudolateral, the subtending bract forming a continuation of the stem; plumose, decompound with the many branches and branchlets of different lengths. Flowers in compact clusters of 3-6. Tepals linear-acuminate, c. 3 mm long, hard with age. Stamens 6, anthers c. 2 mm long with short filaments. Ovary ovoid; style short; stigmas exserted. Capsule narrowly ellipsoid, 3-angled, apiculate, woody, shiny brown, enclosed in perianth or slightly longer; seeds ellipsoid with one side bulging, 0.6 mm long, funicle and apex pointed, short, with a white membranous connecting ridge, reticulate, brown. Flowering in early summer.
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Hard, dark green, tufted perennial to 1.2 m. Leaves cylindrical, stem-like. Flowers in pseudolateral panicles, brown.
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