A perennial herb with a very short rhizome, lacking stolons, stem 20-75 cm long. Leaves 3-6 mm wide, flat, scabrid in the upper part. Inflorescence usually simple, involucral bracts 5-10, up to 30 cm long, rays 5-17, up to 6(-10) cm long, spikelets linear; stamens 3, stigmas 3. Fruit trigonous, linear, slightly curved, rufous to chestnut-coloured.
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