stem densely tufted, 1 ft. long, very slender, minutely densely hairy at the top, 1-headed; leaves nearly as long as the stem, setaceous, hairy; sheaths with long, white, thin hairs; head 1/4 to 1/3 in. in diam., dense with many small spikelets, chestnut-brown; bracts 1/4 to 1/3 in. long, setaceous; spikelets 1/6 by 1/12 in., 6–10-flowered; glumes boat-shaped, ovate, minutely hairy, without long white hair; keel 3–1-nerved, paler, excurrent in a mucro; stamens 3; anthers linear, dark-red, with a small linear crest; nut 2/5 the length of the glume, broadly obovoid, white, finally pale brown, obscurely transversely wavy lineolate (owing to the small longitudinal external cells); style as long as the nut, linear, glabrous, branches 3, rather longer than the style; style-base ovoid-trigonous, persistent after the style drops, hardly darker than the nut, rather large for the genus. null
