Plant tufted; tufts small, discrete or connected by a network of stolons 4-20 cm long. Leaves flat, 1-6 cm long, rarely to 10 cm, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, green, glabrous, sometimes minutely setose on margins, the hairs 0.5-1.5 mm long. Inflorescence loosely capitate; scape simple, 1-15 cm long, as long as leaves or much longer, usually bearing a small ±leafy median glabrous bract 5-17 mm long. Perianth 7-13 mm long, yellow, cream inside, often turning green (tube) and golden-brown (lobes) with age; lobes 4.5-8 mm long. Stamens erect; filaments very short; anthers 0.4-1.1 mm long. Style 6-9.5 mm long.
Grows in clay-loam, often over laterite, in heath and on winter-damp flats in open woodland and scrub.
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