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Perennial herb, 0.17-1.00 m high, culms ± close together on horizontal rhizome, rhizome scales imbricate. Leaf blades 3-4 mm wide, flat. Culm scapose, 3-angled, 1.0-2.2 mm in diam. in middle. Inflorescence a single spike, ovoid-cylindric to subglobose, 5-14 x 6-10 mm, dense. Subtending bracts 3, or 3 + 1 very small bract, relatively short, erect, later reflexed, stiff. Spikelets many, ovate-lanceolate, 3.0-5.5 mm long, 2-flowered, lower bisexual, upper male. Glumes: fertile with keel wingless, glabrous or sparsely scabrid, excurrent into slender, acuminate, slightly recurved, 0.25-0.70 mm long awn. Flowering time Oct., Feb. Nutlet small, obovate, ± 1 mm long, biconvex, golden, turning bright red-orange, later black.
Perennial herb, up to 1 m high. Inflorescence 1, usually cylindric but subglobose and rust streaked under unfavourable conditions, subtended by 3 stiff, erect bracts reflexing to 45 degrees with stem later. Glumes yellowish green.
Slender perennial to 45 cm. Spikelets olive-green.
Spike large cylindrical, golden
Rhizome thick, creeping
