[5] It grows in moist and wet terrestrial habitat, and in shallow water.

The erect, three-angled stems grow in dense clumps and can reach a metre tall.

The leaves take the form of sheaths wrapped around the base of stem, but they generally do not have blades.

The inflorescence is a headlike cluster of cone-shaped spikelets accompanied by an angled, stiff bract which may look like a continuation of the stem.

[1][8] In 1889 Eduard Palla transferred it to the genus, Schoenoplectus,[9] and Schoenoplectus mucronatus was the accepted name until 2010 when it was transferred to the genus, Schoenoplectiella by Jongduk Jung and Hong-Kuen Choi.