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Medium-sized perennial with a fleshy stem-base, but without a rhizome; stem 20–50 cm long, triangular, glabrous, in the lower part covered by wide greyish white leaf-sheaths. Leaves numerous, to 40 cm long and 2–6 mm wide, flat, strongly scabrid along the margin. Inflorescence of 4–10 sessile or stalked spikes; largest peduncles 0.5–3 cm long. Spikes 10–20 x 5–8 mm, with numerous densely set glumes; rhachis strongly nodular, glabrous. Spikelets 3–5 x 1–1.3 mm, somewhat angular, falling off entire when mature. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, greyish white with or without green midrib and sometimes with an orange or reddish brown tinge; apex usually shortly mucronate. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1.2–1.3 x 0.7–0.8 mm, obovate, triangular, reddish brown, almost smooth to minutely papillose, when mature held tightly pressed between the stiff margins of the glumes.

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Medium-sized perennial with a fleshy stem-base, but without a rhizome; stem 20–50 cm long, triangular, glabrous, in the lower part covered by wide greyish white leaf-sheaths. Leaves numerous, to 40 cm long and 2–6 mm wide, flat, strongly scabrid along the margin. Inflorescence of 4–10 sessile or stalked spikes; largest peduncles 0.5–3 cm long. Spikes 10–20 x 5–8 mm, with numerous densely set glumes; rhachis strongly nodular, glabrous. Spikelets 3–5 x 1–1.3 mm, somewhat angular, falling off entire when mature. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, greyish white with or without green midrib and sometimes with an orange or reddish brown tinge; apex usually shortly mucronate. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1.2–1.3 x 0.7–0.8 mm, obovate, triangular, reddish brown, almost smooth to minutely papillose, when mature held tightly pressed between the stiff margins of the glumes.

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Medium-sized perennial with a fleshy stem-base, but without a rhizome; stem 20–50 cm long, triangular, glabrous, in the lower part covered by wide greyish white leaf-sheaths. Leaves numerous, to 40 cm long and 2–6 mm wide, flat, strongly scabrid along the margin. Inflorescence of 4–10 sessile or stalked spikes; largest peduncles 0.5–3 cm long. Spikes 10–20 x 5–8 mm, with numerous densely set glumes; rhachis strongly nodular, glabrous. Spikelets 3–5 x 1–1.3 mm, somewhat angular, falling off entire when mature. Glumes 2.5–3 mm long, greyish white with or without green midrib and sometimes with an orange or reddish brown tinge; apex usually shortly mucronate. Style with 3 branches. Nutlet 1.2–1.3 x 0.7–0.8 mm, obovate, triangular, reddish brown, almost smooth to minutely papillose, when mature held tightly pressed between the stiff margins of the glumes.