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Perennial herb, small tufts, 0.17-0.91 m high. Leaf blades 3.8-6.3 mm wide, V-shaped. Culm scapose, 1.4-3.4 mm in diam. Inflorescence a simple, broadly ovoid spike, a simple anthela or a compound anthela of up to 8 ± spherical spikes, spikes 19-42 x 17-43 mm. Subtending bracts 3-8, leaf-like. Spikelets ± very densely crowded, very narrowly ovate, 5-40 x 1.1-2.5 mm, 6-13-flowered. Glumes loosely imbricate, ovate when flattened, 2.5-4.8 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Flowering time Dec.-Apr. Nutlet elliptical 1.2-2.1 x 0.3-0.9 mm, 3-angled, dark purple-black, surface puncticulate.
A sedge. It is an erect herb. These grow in clumps and have grass like leaves and solid stalks. It has underground stems or runners. It keeps growing from year to year. It can grow to 90 cm high. The stems are 3 sided at the top. The leaves can be as long as the stem. They are broad, tough and smooth. The flowers are in an open group at the top of the plant. The bulbs are round and 25 mm across. They have a sharp point at the top. They are covered with papery scales.
Perennial herb, up to 0.9 m high; hygrophyte, tufted, base globular. Flowers: in simple or compound umbels; spikelets very densely crowded, very narrowly ovate to ovate, laterally conspicuously compressed, abscising as entire units, except for basal sterile glumes; glumes tightly imbricate, few per spikelet, purple-black; Nov.-Mar.
Perennial herb, up to 0.9 m high. Hygrophyte. Spikelets very densely crowded, very narrowly ovate to ovate-lanceolate in outline, laterally conspicuously compressed. Glumes straw-coloured.
Sparsely tufted perennial, 20-90 cm. Spikelets reddish.
