Variable perennial grass-like tufts. Stems (2) -7-60- (80) cm high. Leaves < stems, to 8 mm wide, flat. Inflorescence umbel-like with flowers crowded in globose clusters at ends of branches; subtending bract < inflorescence. Stamens usually 3. Capsule c. 2. mm long, ± = tepals, ovoid, mucronate, red brown.

Tufted, grass-like, very variable in size. Stems (2)–7–60–(80) cm. × 0.5–1.5 mm. Lvs ∞, all basal, 2–8 mm. wide, us. < stem, solid, flat, non-septate, tapering very gradually from the base, tips slightly dilated, mucronate in young lvs; sheaths broad, without auricles, often pink-coloured. Infl. terminal, umbel-like, irregularly branched. Fls ∞, 1.5–2 mm. long, crowded in globose or hemispherical clusters at the ends of the ∞ branchlets; tepals ± equal the outer acuminate, the inner acute, all with light green centre and red-brown edges. Stamens 3, very rarely 3–6. Capsule = or slightly > tepals, ovoid, shining, mucronate, brown.