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Perennial herb, up to 0.5 m high; base a narrowly ovate pseudo-bulb. Leaves basal, many. Flowers: 4-7 bracts, up to 290 mm long; inflorescence an open, terminal umbel of 5-9, ± spreading spikelets; spikelets 6.2-12.5 x 0.6-3.3 mm long, narrowly elliptical, abscising as entire units, except for basal sterile glumes; glumes few per spikelet, 2.9-6.7 mm long, narrowly ovate with apex long-acuminate, conspicuously recurved, reddish brown; Nov.-Feb.
Small, tuft-forming, perennial herb, up to 0.54 mm high. Inflorescence a terminal, simple umbel of 5-9 rays, contracted to various degrees up to a multifid head-like structure. Glumes 2.9-6.7 mm long, apices recurving, straw-coloured.
