Rhizomatous or stoloniferous perennial, with abundant small ‘comma-shaped’ tubers to c. 5 mm long. Culms terete, smooth, light green, 1-5 cm high, c. 0.5 mm diam. Leaf sheaths tubular, much shorter than culms, hyaline, oblique at orifice with the apex obtuse. Spikelet ovoid, 2–4 mm long, slightly flattened, 4–8-flowered; glumes ovate, c. 2 mm long, subacute to rounded, midrib thickened, green to straw-coloured, margins membranous, hyaline; hypogynous bristles 4–6, often of 2 lengths, shorter or subequal to nut and slightly exceeding it, minutely retrorsely-barbellate; stamens 3; anthers c. 1.2 mm long; style 3-fid. Nut obovoid to obpyriform, smooth, trigonous, straw-colored to pale brown, 0.9–1.5 mm long, 0.6–1 mm diam.; style base c. 0.2 mm long, continuous with nut apex. Flowers and fruits summer and early autumn.
GipP, EGL. First collected in Victoria in 2014 and currently known from shallow wetlands near the mouths of the La Trobe and Snowy Rivers in Gippsland, but possibly overlooked and more widespread.
