Plants perennial, tufted, 15--33 cm tall. Rhizome short. Stems terete, ca. 1 mm in diam., striate. Basal leaves few, cauline leaves 2 or 3; leaf sheath auricles obtuse, membranous, free part ca. 0.3 mm; leaf blade linear (4--)7--17 cm, apex acute. Inflorescences cymose, much branched, plumelike, to 12 cm; involucral bract leaflike, 2.7--3.5 cm. Perianth segments lanceolate, center greenish, margin hyaline, apex acute or acuminate; outer segments 3--3.5 × ca. 1.2 mm; inner segments 3--3.2 × ca. 1.2 mm. Stamens 6; filaments 1--1.5 mm; anthers 1.3--2.2 mm. Style 1.7--2.6 mm; stigmas 1.7--3.2 mm. Capsule trigonous oblong, ca. 2.4 mm; beak ca. 1.8 mm. Seeds (immature) apparently not appendaged at both ends. Fl. Sep--Oct, fr. Oct--Nov.
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