2n = c. 60

Rather flaccid yellow-green tufts to 10 cm high. Inflorescence a solitary ebracteate spike 5-8 mm long, male flowers above, female below. Glumes light brown. Utricles green. Stigmas 3.

Shortly rhizomatous, tufts flaccid, more or less matted. Culms 4–10–(20) × c. 0.5 mm., us. ± curved, plano-convex to terete, smooth; basal sheaths light brown or grey-brown. Lvs < culms, to 0.5 mm. wide, plano-convex to involute, yellow-green, shining, margins finely scabrid near the acute tip. Infl. a solitary, terminal, androgynous spike 5–8 × 3–4 mm., ovate, ebracteate, or the lowermost glume occ. ± bractiform; female fls 6–10, male fls in a terminal spikelet c. 3 mm. long. Glumes < utricles, ovate, obtuse, pale brown, midrib green. Utricles c. 2 × 1 mm., plano-convex or biconvex, ovoid, green, membr., nerved, margins glab.; beak c. 0.5 mm. long, orifice truncate or notched, glab.; stipe absent. Stigmas 3. Nut c. 1.5 mm. long, bluntly trigonous, ovoid, pale cream, surface distinctly reticulately pitted; style-base persistent.