Lepidosperma neesii

Tufted perennial with short rhizome. Culms rigid, erect, terete to ± angular, often 1(–2)-grooved, glabrous, smooth, 20–75 cm high, 0.8–2.0 mm diam. Leaf-blades terete with 1 side flattened or grooved, or obscurely 4-angled, shorter than culms, 0.7–1.3 mm diam.; sheaths straw-coloured to reddish above, dark brown at base, not viscid, dull. Inflorescence oblong to ovate in outline, erect, dense, 2–9 cm long, 1–1.5 cm diam.; involucral bract shorter than inflorescence. Spikelets few, densely clustered, c. 6 mm long; glumes 5 or 6, long-acute, often mucronate, puberulous to glabrous, red-to grey-brown, the 1–3 lowest empty, somewhat shorter than fertile glumes, which are 4.5–5.0 mm long; hypogynous scales 5 or 6, whitish, from one-eighth to one-quarter length of nut. Nut narrow-ellipsoid, whitish to pale red-brown, wrinkled to smooth, shining, 2.0–2.8 mm long, 1.3–1.6 mm diam. Flowers spring.