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Tufted, grass-like annual, or usually perennial herb, up to 0.45 m high. Leaves basal, flat, linear, with closed basal sheaths, inconspicuously silky hairy. Inflorescence of dense, terminal spikes, heads or panicles, subtended by 1-few leaf-like bracts. Scapes long, furnished with reduced leaves or bracts, the upper subtending inflorescence. Flowers each subtended by small, membranous, ciliate bract. Perianth segments glumaceous. Stamens 6, ± 2 mm long; filaments longer than anthers. Ovary unilocular, with 3, nearly basal ovules. Capsule loculicidal, globose, apiculate. Seeds few, ovoid to globose, minutely apiculate with thick, basal caruncle.
Tufted, grass-like, annual or perennial herb, up to 400 mm high. Leaves with long, soft, inconspicuous, scattered hairs; leaf sheaths closed; blade flat, linear. Flowers: in a long, compact head, each subtended by a small, membranous, ciliate bract; perianth brown; Sep., Oct. Fruit 3-seeded.
Tufted, grass-like, annual or perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves with long, soft, inconspicuous, scattered hairs. Leaf sheaths closed. Flowers in a long, compact head. Capsules 3-seeded. Flowers brown.
