Isolepis prolifera

Slender, tufted or stoloniferous, usually proliferating from inflorescence. Culms often decumbent, to 40 cm high, to 3 mm diam. Leaves reduced to dark red-brown sheaths. Inflorescence a ± loose globose head of numerous spikelets, proliferous branches to 12 cm long, spikelets 4–15 mm long; involucral bract shorter than inflorescence; glumes irregularly several-nerved on sides, hyaline or pale brown flecked or tinged dark red-brown, 1.8–2.3 mm long; stamens 3 (rarely fewer); style 3-fid. Nut ± unequally triquetrous, ellipsoid, smooth or minutely pitted, glistening, pale yellow, about half as long as glume, c. 1 mm long, c. 0.4 mm diam. Flowers spring.