Mat-forming perennial 60-280 mm high; rhizome long, profusely branched; leaves mostly basal; culms usually one-noded. Leaf blade 5-35 x 1-3 mm, broadly obtuse, margins not white cartilaginous, apex short, rounded. Inflorescence not obviously dichotomously branched; axils without long hairs; spikelets solitary at branch apices. Spikelet 1.5-1.8(2.2) mm long; glumes unequal, obtuse, ovate-oblong; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet; lemma broadly oblong, apex subobtuse; anther 1.3-1.7 mm long.
Perennial; up to 0.3 m high; mat-forming; rhizome long and profusely branched. Leaf blades 5-35 x 1-3 mm; broadly obtuse; apex rounded; leaves mostly basal; cauline ones much shorter; old leaf sheaths not splitting into fibres. Flowers: panicle dichotomously branched with spikelets solitary at branch apices; spikelets 1.5-1.8 mm long; lower glume 1/2 as long as spikelet; upper glume 2/3 as long as spikelet; lemma apex subobtuse.