Triglochin trichophora

Slender annual herb, 1.5–13 cm high. Leaves flat and thread-like, 1–8 cm long, shorter than to almost as long as infructescence. Scape at fruiting erect, ascending or spreading, 0.4–11.0 cm long, infructescence 0.6–3.6(–6.0) cm long, with (1–)4–49 fruits. Fruits broadly ovoid or ellipsoid, often taped at apex and contracted at base, (1.3–)1.5–3.2 mm long, 0.6–1.8 mm wide above just above base; subsessile or pedicel up to 6 mm long; carpels 6, 3 fertile carpels alternating with 3 undeveloped sterile ones; fertile carpels keeled or strongly convex dorsally when dry, at base with 2 lateral spurs or points c. 0.02 mm long, usually with 2 deflexed spurs connected by a membrane between the lateral spurs.    Fruits July–Dec.