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Tufted, perennial, rhizomatous herb, with coarse, hard, compact horizontal rhizomes and thick roots. Leaves basal, terete, without septa, apex pungent; sheaths 4 or 5 to each leaf, auriculate; cataphylls present. Scape pseudolateral, with subtending bract forming continuation of stem, decompound, interrupted, many-flowered. Flowers solitary or 2-few together on branchlets of varying lengths, paniculate. Perianth segments linear-acuminate to narrowly ovate with membranous margins, 4-5 mm long. Stamens 6; filaments short; anthers ± 1 mm long. Ovary ovoid; style short, stigmas ± as long as style, usually exserted sideways. Capsule narrowly cylindrical, tricostate, acute. Seeds ovoid with long white appendages at each end.
Robust, tufted, perennial halophyte, up to 1.5 m high. Leaves non-septate, basal, rigid, pungent. Flowers: inflorescence paniculate, usually elongated and rather compact; bisexual; inner perianth segments acute, with hyaline margins; perianth yellowish brown. Fruit subterete, triangular, with pointed tip, exserted from perianth. Seeds with white appendages.
Hard, tufted perennial, up to 1.5 m tall. Leaves as long as stems, cylindrical in cross section, pungent. Flowers in a somewhat lateral cluster, subtending bract continuous with stem, usually straw-coloured.
Tufted, perennial herb, up to 1.5 m high. Inflorescence more loosely branched, with flowers 1 to few on shorter and longer side branchlets. Capsule exserted..Seed appendaged. Flowers yellowish brown.
A rush. It forms tufts. It keeps growing from year to year. It has underground stems or rhizomes. It grows 60 cm high.
Inflorescences about 60 cm. high
A tufted perennial herb
Very acute leaf apices
