Plants up to 40 cm tall, culms ascending from a creeping, about 3 mm in diameter, rhizome. Culms solid, terete, branching, about 0.5 mm in diameter, the surface obscurely rugulose. Sheaths tightly convoluted, 7-12 mm long, obtuse to truncate with a 2-3 mm long aciculate awn, body pale brown with fine red speckling, the upper margin narrowly hyaline. Male inflorescence a single spikelet, 1-1.5 cm long, 2-4 mm in diam. with 3-5 flowers. Bracts acute, 8-10 x 2-3 mm, with a short awn, papyraceous to cartilaginous, pale yellow with fine red speckling. Flowers shortly pedicellate, perianth 3 mm long. Sepals cartilaginous; lateral sepals conduplicate, carina sparsely pilose, the apex extended into a fine point rising between two rounded lobes; odd sepal flat, obtuse, 2.5 x 0.9 mm. Petals membranous, 2.2 x 0.6 mm. Anthers 1.6 mm long, shortly mucronate. Pistillode minute, three-lobed. Female inflorescence similar to male, but with 2-4 flowers. Flowers shortly pedicellate, perianth 3.5 mm long. Sepals similar to male flowers. Petals membranous, 2 x 0.6 mm, obtuse, fused in the lower 1/4 to form a tube surrounding the base of the ovary. Staminodes about 1 mm long. Ovary with two fertile locules, styles three, free, produced from three horns on the ovary. Fruit a capsule. Seed not seen.
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