Luzula

Tufted or rhizomatous perennials. Leaves mostly basal, flat or channelled, variably invested with fine white hairs along the margins, rarely glabrous. Flowering stems generally exceeding leaves, usually with 1–4 cauline leaves. Inflorescence a terminal cyme, of 1–several, stalked or sessile, globose clusters, the lower cluster(s) subtended by a leaf-like bract; flowers bisexual, each subtended by 3–4 scarious bracts; perianth segments (tepals) 6, subequal or equal, in 2 whorls, pale to dark brown with pale membranous margins; stamens 6 (all Australian species) or 3; ovary unilocular with 3 ovules; stigma trifid; seeds 3, blackish with a pale, basal connective part (caruncle).