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Robust, tufted perennial, with creeping woody rhizomes, up to 1.5 m high; roots thin. Leaves borne on stems, terete, distinctly septate, apex pointed; sheaths 2 or 3. Scapes rigid, terete, septate with one central and several lateral gas channels, usually bearing a leaf near middle. Inflorescence paniculate; heads many, spherical or nearly so, many-flowered, borne on wiry branchlets of varying lengths; floral bract solitary (bracteoles absent. Perianth segments 2.5 mm long, narrowly ovate, subequal, outer acute. Stamens with anthers as long as filaments. Ovary ovoid; style and stigmas fairly long. Capsule loculicidal, 3-valved, ovoid, apiculate. Seeds ovoid-globose, obtuse, apiculate at each end.
Robust, tufted, perennial herb, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves cauline, fairly soft and pointed; blade septate. Flowers: scape septate, with 1 leaf arising near middle, terete, in transverse section with central gas channel and several lateral ones; perianth light brown; Oct.-Jan. Fruit 3-locular. Seeds both ends apiculate.
Tufted, perennial herb, up to 1.5 m high. Flowering stem pale green, with 2 or 3 basal sheaths and 1 leaf arising near middle. Capsule 3-locular. Medulla of stem consisting of a central and lateral air space. Flowers light brown.
Hard, tufted, pale green perennial, up to 1.5 m tall. Leaf solitary per flowering stem, cylindrical, septate with thick, transverse bands. Flowers in round capitula in pseudolateral panicles, brown.
Hard, tufted, pale green perennial to 1.5 m. Leaf solitary per flowering stem, cylindrical, septate. Flowers in round capitula in pseudolateral panicles, brown.
