Eriocaulon australasicum

Leaves 20–50 mm long, 1–1.5 mm wide. Inflorescence ovoid to subglobose, 3–4 mm diam., with outer whorls of female flowers and inner whorls of male flowers. Bracts glabrous; outer bracts ± narrowly ovate; inner bracts ± linear. Male flowers pedicellate, with perianth glabrous; outer perianth lobes 3, oblong-spathulate, cohering at base; inner perianth fused into a 3-lobed tube. Female flowers with perianth absent. Ovary sessile, but appearing shortly and distinctly pedicellate because perianth absent. Flowers Dec. and Mar.