Japan Flora: Rather firm tufted herb; culms 4-15 cm. long, erect, smooth, rigid; leaf-blades stiff, lustrous, spreading, 1.5-2.5 mm. wide, the sheaths partially reddish purple; spikes 2 or 3, approximate, erect, the terminal stami­nate, linear, 7-13 mm. long, the lateral pistillate, narrowly oblong to nearly globose, densely few-flowered, subsessile, 4-8 mm. long, nate, linear, 7-13 mm. long, the lateral pistillate, narrowly oblong to nearly globose, densely few-flowered, subsessile, 4-8 mm. long, the bracts very short, auriculate, not sheathing, sometimes with a setaceous dp; pistillate scales broadly elliptic, very obtuse to nearly rounded, ciliolate, dark reddish brown; perigynia slightly longer than the scales, 2 mm. long, el­lipsoidal, obtusely angled, with 2 costal nerves, sparsely short- setulose mainly on the upper part, abruptly short- beaked, the tip hyaline, emarginate; stigmas 3. July-Aug. Dry alpine slopes.

Hokkaido (Mount Yubaridake); very rare. Sakha­lin, and e. Siberia.