Scirpus pendulus

Robust tufted perennial, with short, stout rhizome. Culms terete, erect, smooth, 55–100 cm high (to 250 cm outside Victoria), 1.5–2.5 mm diam. Leaves shorter than culms, to 5 mm wide; sheaths green to yellow-brown, persisting as fibrous remains. Inflorescence oblong to ovate in outline, c. 7 cm long, with rather drooping branches. Spikelets 5–8(–11) mm long; glumes obtuse, mucronate, glabrous, red-brown, with prominent usually green midrib, c. 1.8(–2.5) mm long; anthers 0.6–0.8 mm long, excluding apical appendage to 0.1 mm long. Nut obovoid, planoconvex or with a distinct dorsal angle, glistening, minutely pitted, pale yellow-brown, 0.8–1.5 mm long, 0.6–0.8 mm diam. Flowers spring.