Distichlis distichophylla

Stems long-creeping, with leafy parts usually erect, to 20 cm high (sometimes more if ascending through taller vegetation). Leaves strongly distichous, smooth and glabrous or nearly so; blade strongly incurved, rather stiff and sharp-pointed, mostly to 5 cm long and 4 mm wide; ligule to 0.5 mm (often only c. 0.1 mm) long. Inflorescence a compact raceme of (2–)c. 4(–10) overlapping spikelets, both sexes similar. Spikelets 6–14-flowered, lanceolate, 9–16 mm long; glumes acute to acuminate, 4–6 mm long; lemmas resembling glumes but usually slightly longer. Flowers Oct.–Apr.