Triglochin laxiflora Guss.

Plants 10–25(–35) cm high, with fusiform bulbs; bulbs covered in dry, brown fibres which are usually stiff, sometimes soft or spiky; fibres up to 5 cm long. Plants without rhizomes. Leaves few (mostly 2–4 per bulb), formed after flowering, usually much shorter than plant height (mostly reaching only half the height of plants). Outer leaves shorter and wider than inner leaves, up to 6 cm long, mucronate, inner leaves abruptly narrowing above the ligule, less than 1.5 mm wide. Inflorescences lax, with 4–15(–25) flowers. Flowers 2–3 mm long. Pedicels 2–3 mm long, rarely longer, usually much shorter than fruit, ascending, 6 appressed to infructescence axis, diverging from it at angles of up to 45°, slightly curved inwards towards the apex. Infructescences 3–10 cm long. Fruits narrowly ovoid, 5–10 mm long, rarely longer, 1–2 mm wide. Mericarps linear, connate at the carpophore; tips curved outwards.