Small tufted annual, 1.5-7 cm high, hispid throughout with white, rigid, multicellular hairs. Leaves 1-3 cm long, all basal, filiform; lamina broadening at base to membranous sheath; tip acicular. Scapes 2-7 cm long, much > leaves; glume-like bracts 2, occasionally 3, c. 3 mm long, green or pinkish, ovate, spreading; awn glabrous c. 1 mm long with acicular tip. Pseudanthia 4-8 in each bract, ± = bracts, each with 3 hyaline fringed bracteoles, one very short, one sheathing male flower, one sheathing female flowers. Male flower 1 in each pseudanthium; female flowers 4-8 in each pseudanthium, connate and superposed in 2 rows; styles not connate. Seeds c. 0.5 mm long, obovate-oblong, blunt at top, testa faintly reticulate, brown with dark tip at each end.

Small, tufted annual, 1.5–7 cm. tall. Roots fine and fibrous. Lvs 1–3 cm. × c. 0.2 mm., filiform, hispid throughout their length with white, rigid, multicellular hairs; tips acicular, lamina broadening at the base to a membr. sheath. Flowering stems 2–6.5 cm. × c. 0.3 mm., very much > lvs, hispid with very fine tangled, white hairs. Glume-like bracts 2, or occ. 3, c. 3 mm. long, green or pinkish with a narrow membr. margin, ovate and spreading, hispid with long, rigid, multicellular hairs; awn glab., c. 1 mm. long with an acicular tip. Pseudanthia 4–8 in each bract, almost = bracts in length, each with 3 hyaline fringed scales unequal in length, one very much shorter, the 2 others sheathing respectively the ♂ and the ♀. ♂ 1 to each partial infl. ♀ 4–8 to each partial infl. connate and superposed in 2 rows or occ. appearing spirally arranged. Styles not connate. Seed c. 0.5 mm. long, obovate-oblong, blunt at the top, surface very faintly reticulated, brown with a dark tip at each end.