Carpha filifolia C.Reid & T.H.Arnold

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.4-0.6 m high. Leaf blades filiform, 0.50-0.75 mm wide. Culm ± 1-noded, terete, ± 1 mm in diam. Inflorescence a much-reduced, head-like panicle 12-25 mm long. Bracts erect, longer than inflorescence, leaf-like. Spikelets lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, of 4 or 5 glumes. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 6 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Perianth 6, whitish, antrorsely scabrid, slender bristles of varying lengths (both longer and shorter than nutlet on same nutlet), setose or plumose towards base. Flowering time Feb. Nutlet oblong, 4-5 x 1 mm, 3-angled, brown, crowned with large, persistent, scabrid style base, surface reticulate.