Glabrous. Stems 2–6 in. long, annual, tufted, slender. Leaves 1/2 the length of the stem, setaceous. Head 1/8– 1/5 in. in diam., straw-coloured, of 3 (rarely 2–1) distinct densely-flowered spikelets; bracts 2–3, up to 1–3 in. long, spreading or pendent. Spikelets 1/12– 1/8 in. long when young; in fruit elongating, with the lower glumes and nuts caducous seriatim from the base, as in Lipocarpha. Glumes minute, narrow-oblong, shorter than the squamellæ. Squamella 1/12– 1/10 in. long, of thick loose tissue, broadly obovate, truncate; rostrum short or minute, margins enrolled round the nut, overlapping, free to the base in Barter n. 761. Nut 1/2 the length of the squamella, oblong-ellipsoid, subtrigonous, smooth, dark chestnut-coloured. Style 1/2 the length of the nut; branches 3, linear, short, hardly exserted above the rim of the squamella.