rhizome creeping; stems slender, erect, 2–6 in. high, branching above the middle; branches curved, spreading, olivaceous, studded with small, whitish tubercles; leaf-sheaths 1/4– 1/2 in. long, closely convolute, coriaceous, membranous at the upper margins, subulato-mucronate; spikes solitary, oblong-cuneate, 2-flowered, about 1 line long; spathe oblong, acute, shortly mucronate; bracts spreading, oblong, shortly mucronate; outer perianth-segments subequal, obtuse, ciliolate at the margins; lateral conduplicate, villous-carinate; inner similar, thinner, with the midrib villosulous; staminodes 3; ovary oblong, subcompressed, 2-celled; stigmas 3. null
