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Tufted perennial with woody horizontal rhizome and crowded shoots at the growing end; stems 20–70 cm long and 0.5–1.5 mm thick, angular, glabrous except for minute spine-like hairs below the inflorescence. Leaf-sheaths light brown, glabrous except for long flexuose hairs at their openings; blades 5–15 cm long and 0.5–1 mm wide, flat or canaliculate, almost glabrous. Inflorescence of 2–12 spikelets, either all sessile forming a head or with 1–3 additional stalked spikelets or spikelet-clusters; involucral bracts inconspicuous. Spikelets 6–10 x 2–4 mm, ovoid. Glumes 4–6 mm long, reddish brown with a green midrib, minutely hairy, ovate with acute apex; margin ciliate. Nutlet 1.4–1.8 mm long, obovate, transversely wrinkled; style base persistent.