Amphipogon caricinus F.Muell.

Plants 18–60 cm high; rhizome short, extending obliquely upwards. Shoots intravaginal, often several clustered. Leaves glabrous or villous; blade rolled both when fresh and dried, 5–15 cm long, 0.4–0.8 mm wide. Inflorescences linear, ellipsoid or cylindrical, 15–60 (–80) mm long, 5–15 mm wide. Sterile spikelets absent or occasionally 1 or 2 present, not involucre-like. Bisexual spikelets 6.5–12 mm long; glumes 4.3–7.5 mm long, entire, obtuse with a small point to shortly acuminate, puberulous (with hairs often glandular-tipped) or scabrous with prickles sometimes enlarged along glume keels or upper lateral area but seldom with large tubercle-based setae, with upper margins often ciliate, green to straw-coloured, sometimes pink-tinged; callus c. 0.5 mm long, pointed; lemma body 2.2–4 mm long; lemma lobes equal, 4.2–7 mm long with short (1–4 mm long) awn-tip, entirely plumose or tip scabrous for up to 0.8 mm. Anthers 3–4 mm long. Styles fused to middle. Stigmas red.

It grows in shallow soils. It is very drought resistant. It suits hot, dry locations. It grows in tropical and temperate places.

Plants can be grown from seed or division.