stems 2–3 ft. high, much branched; branches fasciculate, slender, puncticulate; leaf-sheaths about 1/2 in. long, ovate, acute, striate, membranous at the margins, spreading at the apex, smaller sheaths with a two-lobed hyaline apex and a foliaceous reflexed mucro; spikelets 1–5 or more in a spicate or paniculate cyme, each about 1/4 in. long, curved, cylindric-lanceolate; spathe sheath-like, mucronate, much shorter than the spikelet; bracts oblong, shortly mucronate, coriaceous, brown; margins brown, membranous; perianth-segments linear-oblong; lateral conduplicate, villous-keeled; inner thinner and more slender; female spikelets 1–3, each about 1/4 in. long, oblong obpyramidal; spathe bract-like, shorter than the spikelet; bracts broadly ovate, acute; perianth-segments as in the male; ovary ovoid; capsule oblique, subglobose, by abortion 1-celled, as long as the persistent perianth-segments; seed compressed, pitted. null
