Triglochin elongata Buchenau

Plants 15–90 cm high, with rhizomes. Rhizomes whitish to beige with bracts. Leaves uniform, thickened at the base but not forming a bulb, as long as or longer than plant height, 1–2 mm wide, leaf bases covered by soft, whitish to brown fibres, fibres mostly 3–6 cm, rarely up to 15 cm long. Inflorescences dense, with 10–100 flowers. Flowers 1.5–2.5 mm long. Pedicels elongated at fruiting time, then 2–6 mm long. Infructescences (6–)10–25 cm long. Fruits narrowly ovoid to ovoid, often secund, 5–9 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide. Mericarps connate at the carpophore; tips mostly curved outwards.