Inflorescence ovoid, 2 1/2 by 1 in., dense, compound, straw-brown; lowest bract as long as the panicle. Spikes 1/4– 1/3 by 1/5 in., female at the base, a few male at the top. Female glumes 1/10 in. long, elliptic-lanceolate, hardly mucronate, ferrugineous, keel green. Utricle 1/8 in. long, hardly stalked, elliptic-lanceolate, beaked, plano-convex, glabrous (a very few hairs on the margins), white, very thin, without nerves on the plane face, obscurely 3-nerved on the convex face; beak lanceolate, 1/3– 1/2 the length of whole utricle, deeply split on the convex face; style-branches 2, linear very long, brown-red. Nut ellipsoid, plano-convex, dark brown.
