Tufted perennial. Culms slender, 15–30 cm high, 0.5–1 mm diam. Leaf-blades filiform, channelled, stiffly erect, pungent, smooth, shorter than to equalling inflorescence; ligules woolly; sheaths dark brown to black, shining at least in part. Inflorescence slender, erect, 4–20 cm long, with 2–5 nodes. Spikelets 2-flowered; glumes 7–9, similar in size, dark grey-brown, glabrous, with apex acuminate to long-acute; stamens 3; anthers 0.7–1.4 mm long excluding apical appendage c. 0.1 mm long. Nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous, granulate, glistening, 1.4–2.0 mm long, 0.7–0.8 mm diam., straw-coloured to mid-brown. Flowers spring.
LoM, MuM, RobP. Also WA, SA, NSW. Locally common on sandy rises in mallee woodland and heathland in the north-west (e.g. Wyperfeld and Hattah National Parks).
Source:
Wilson, K.L. (1994). Cyperaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 238–356. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
