Tufted perennial with erect or somewhat spreading scapes; branches short, densely leafy at the crown. Leaves linear, spathulate or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long, 2.5-7 mm broad towards apex, subacute or obtuse, stem-clasping. Scapes 10-30 cm tall, branched from near the base and with all the secondary branches more or less the same length, slightly scabrid with minute rugosities; branchlets mainly sterile and only a few bearing spikelets at or near the tips, usually producing a few small tufts of reduced leaves in the axils of upper bracts; bracts 1.5-3.5 mm long broadly triangular, acute or acuminate. Spikelets 1-or rarely 2-flowered; bract 3.5-4 mm long, enveloping the calyx, obtuse with a broad membranous margin. Calyx shortly pedicellate, about 5 mm long, slender cylindric, glabrous or very nearly so, shortly 5-lobed at the membranous apex. Petals 8-9 mm long, oblanceolate, obtuse, emarginate. Filaments shorter than the petals; anthers short, divided to half way. Ovary oblong, 5-angled with 5 free styles.
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