Genus XIII Scleria Linnaeus, p. 182

Genus XIII Scleria, Linneus.
(Greek skleros, hardness)

Flowers monoecious; fertile spike one-flowered, usually intermixed with clusters of few flowered staminate spikes; scales loosely imbricated, the lower empty; stamens 1 to 3; style 3 cleft; achenium globular, stony, bony, or enamel-like in texture, seated in a shallow or saucer-like disk.-Culms triangular, leafy, nodose.