Perennial herb with adventitious roots. Leaves rosetted, ground-hugging, oblanceolate- to obovate-elliptic, 2–8 cm long, 7–25 mm wide, acute or obtuse, glabrous to pubescent, axils with tufts of long golden-brown hairs, 3-veined (lateral veins inconspicuous), margins entire; petiole indistinct. Spike ovoid to cylindric, 10–many-flowered, 0.8–3 cm long; peduncles 8–16 cm long, pubescent; bracts ovate, 2–2.5 mm long, obtuse, virtually glabrous. Sepals elliptic, 1.5–1.8 mm long, subequal; corolla-tube 1.5–1.8 mm long, lobes 1–1.2 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers c. 1 mm long, exserted. Capsule broad-ovoid, 2.5–3 mm long; seeds 4, oblong to elliptic, 1–1.7 mm long, dark brown. Flowers Nov.–Feb.
HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW. In Victoria confined to high-altitude parts of the east: i.e. Baw Baw Plateau, Bogong High Plains, Mt Buffalo, Cobberas and the Snowy Plains. Grows in grassland or herbfield, often beside streams or around bogs.
