Capeobolus brevicaulis (C.B.Clarke) J.Browning

Perennial herb, tufted, frequently cushion-like, 0.07-0.20 m high. Leaf blades up to 200 x 3-4 mm, bifacial, lacking midrib, flat. Culm nodose, 40-60 x 1.0-1.5 mm, cryptic among leaves. Inflorescence reduced, paniculate, of 2-4 nodes each bearing 1 subsessile, or 1 subsessile and 1 shortly peduncled spikelet. Bracts 1 at each node. Spikelets solitary, of 7-10 distichous glumes, lower few sterile, upper 2 fertile. Glumes: fertile imbricate, lanceolate, ± 7.5 mm long, keel excurrent into minute point. Perianth 6 villous outgrowths shorter than nutlet. Flowering time Dec.-Mar. Nutlet elliptical or oblong, base narrow, up to 4 x 3 mm, 3-ridged, whitish or pale brown, surface faintly transversely rugose towards apex.