Leaves red, longer than the culms, (12-) 16-30 cm long, 0.7-1.2 mm wide, plano- or concavo-convex, strict, cirrhose, margins scabrid, sheaths 2-3 mm wide. Culms 3-13 cm long, 0.6-0.8 mm wide below the lowest bract sheath, terete, smooth, lowest bract sheath 0.5-1.7 cm long. Inflorescence 2.5-8 ( -13) cm long, spikes approximate or the lowest remote and then the internode 2-8 cm long. Spikes 4-5, terminal male, 0.5-1 cm long, sessile, remainder female, 0.5-1 (-1.3) cm long, 0.3 cm broad, ovate or cylindric, sessile or the lowest on a peduncle 0.3-0.5 ( -1.5) cm long. Glumes equalling or shorter than the utricles, broadly ovate to oblong, emarginate, pale brown with a lighter midrib produced into a mucro or awn 0.5(-1) mm long. Utricles 2-2.2(-2.6) mm long, 1.2-1.3 mm broad, ovoid to rhomboid, trigonous or unequally inflated, striate or faintly ribbed, shining, pale usually with a black beak, margins smooth, beak 0.2-0.3 mm long, broad, crura minute or absent, stigmata 3.

Folia rubra, culmos excedentia, (12-) 16-30 cm longa, 0.7-1.2 mm lata, plano vel concavo-convexa, stricta, cirrhosa, culmi 3-13 cm longi, inflorescentia 2.5-8 ( -13) cm longa, spicae 4-5, spica terminalis mascula, ceterae femineae, approximatae vel infima remota, 0.5-1.3 cm longae, 0.3 cm latae, ovatae vel cylindricae, sessiles vel ima breviter pedunculata, glumae utriculos aequantes vel breviores, late ovatae vel oblongae, emarginatae, pallide brunneae, costa in mucronem ad 0.5 mm longum producta, utriculi 2-2.2 mm longi, 1.2-1.3 mm lati, ovoidei vel rhombiformes, trigoni vel irregulariter inflati, striati vel languide costati, nitentes, pallidi plerumque rostro nigro, 0.2-0.3 mm longo, marginibus laevibus, crura minuta vel 0, stigmata 3.

Leaves ± 1 mm wide. Spikes ± distant below.

Lvs 0.7–1.2 mm. wide. Lower spikes us. distant and upper spikes approximate, but sts all spikes close-packed. Awn of glume up to 0.5 mm. long, rarely to 1 mm. long. Utricles c. 2.0 × 1.0–1.3 mm.