Japan Flora: Stems elongate, submersed; leaves slender, compressed, not keeled, 2-4 mm. wide, obtuse; spikes simple, commonly 2-3 cm. long, the bracts longer than the spikes; pistillate heads 2 or 3, 6,8 mm. in diameter in fruit, the lowest one usually with a supra-axillary peduncle, the staminate heads 1 or 2, close together and closely adjacent to the pistillate heads; fruit ovoid, with a narrowly ovate stigma. Ponds.