Gahnia ancistrophylla

Tufted perennial. Culms slender, 10–20 cm high, c. 1 mm diam. Leaf-blades ± filiform, channelled, erect, with uncinate apex, smooth, shorter than or equalling inflorescence; ligules long-ciliate; sheaths dark brown to blackish, dull. Inflorescence slender, erect, 16–20 cm long, with 1–5 nodes. Spikelets 2-flowered; glumes 6–7, similar in size, dark grey-brown, glabrous or scaberulous, with apex acute to mucronate; stamens 3–4; anthers c. 1 mm long excluding apical appendage 0.1 mm long. Nut oblong-obovoid, trigonous, granulate, glistening, 1.4–1.8 mm long, 0.7–0.9 mm diam., brown to blackish. Flowers spring.