Description:Small, dull grey-green to green, much-branched, very densely packed perennial, rooting from short prostrate branches and forming compact, rigid cushions to 100 × 25 mm high, slightly overtopped by filiform flowering culms with few spikelets
Habitat:Subalpine to alpine in snow hollows and on lake margins
| Form of cushion | TC | Tufted cushion, densely caespitose |
| Compactness | 1 | Compact, hard (peat-accumulating) |
| Variability | 0 | No variability |
| Root system | NA | NA |
| Woodiness | 0 | Herbaceaous |
| Thorniness | 0 | No |
| Succulence | 0 | No |
| Flowers | 0_1 | Intermediate |