Tufted perennial herb ; up to 15 cm long with crowded stems often growing in a straight line . Stems (culms) crowded , bases swollen and fused into a horizontal rhizome , grey-green , tufted , terete to upper part trigonous , smooth . Leaves grey-green , up to nearly equalling stems ; leaf sheath hard , brown to greyish brown , loose ; leaf blade linear , canaliculate or flat , margins inrolled , scabrid on margins , apex acute to acuminate . Inflorescences a solitary usually globose head of 5–50 spikelets , whitish or yellowish brown ; spikelets to 20 per head , crowded , lanceolate , compressed ; glumes pale grey-green to white , tightly distichous , elliptic-lanceolate , acuminate , slightly keeled . Fruit nutlet , 1 . 3–2 × 1–1 . 3 mm , dark brown to black , shiny , obovoid , triangular , smooth , obscurely papillose . (Ref . Flora of Oman ; vol . 4) .
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Snow White Sedge
Not recorded yet. (Ref. Oman Botanic Garden).
Ghazanfar, S. (2018). Flora of the Sultanate of Oman, vol.4: Hydrocharitaceae – Orchidaceae. Meise, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Scripta Botanica Begica, Vol. 56). ISBN 9789492663153 ISSN 0779-2387. https://en.wikipedia.org https://en.wiktionary.org Gledhill, D. (2008). The Names of Plants. Fourth Edition. Cambridge University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-521-86645-3 ISSN 978-0-521-68553-5. POWO (2023). "Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org
