E. minuta minutaE. minuta Boeck.

Style 2-fid. Culms mostly 5–15 cm high, angular, 0.4–0.6 mm wide. Sheaths purplish at base. Spikelets ovoid-oblong or ovoid, dark coloured, 3–7 mm long, c. 2 mm wide. Perennial, sometimes with short stolons or rhizomes. Coast. Swamps, sometimes wholly submerged except the inflorescences