Japanese name: ヒメミコシガヤ（姫神輿茅） Scientific name:Carex laevissima
[Overview]
A perennial 15–40 cm tall, growing in grassland.
The stem is slightly 3-ridged.
The leaves are linear, and the front of the leaf sheath is membranous and wrinkled.
The front of the ligule rises higher than the base of the leaf blade.
An ovoid-cylindrical inflorescence 2–5 cm long is borne at the stem tip, densely set with spikelets.
In each spikelet, male flowers are in the upper part and female flowers in the lower part, and it is tinged with reddish brown.
The perigynium is narrowly ovate, 3–3.5 mm long, with fine veins, membranous, slightly rough on the upper margin, and gradually tapering into a beak.
[Notes]
The Japanese name means "small Mikoshi-gaya", but the bracts from which Mikoshi-gaya got its name are short and inconspicuous in this species.
