2n = 88

Slender tufts, shoots < 1mm. diam. at base (including sheaths), often rather distant from an ascending rhizome < 1 mm. diam. Culms (5)–15–40 cm. long, much < 0.5 mm. diam., glab.; basal bracts dull, dark reddish brown. Lvs 4–7 per culm, ± = culms, 0.5–1 mm. wide, yellow-green, scabrid on margins and adaxial surface towards the long filiform tip. Spikes 2.5–5 cm. × 2–3 mm., occ. bracteate, female fls c. 10–20, internodes to 5 mm. long at base of spike, 1.5–2 mm. long above. Glumes = or slightly < utricles, deciduous, ovate-lanceolate, subacute, membr., pale cream or brown with a green midrib. Utricles 5–6 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. diam., plano-convex or subtrigonous to trigonous, narrow oblong-lanceolate, light green, shining, nerved but often very faintly so on the two abaxial surfaces, us. erect when ripe, slightly narrowed to a stipe 1–1.5 mm. long, beak gradually tapered, only slightly narrower than utricle, 1–1.5 mm. long.