Cyperus schlechteri C.B.Clarke

Perennial herb, forming small tussocks, bases with fibrous remains of old leaf sheaths, 0.1-0.3 m high. Leaf blades 1.5-3.0 mm wide, flat, frequently inrolled. Culm scapose, ± 1 mm in diam. Inflorescence a small head, 10-12 mm in diam., of ± 6-10 spikelets, 2 or more stalked clusters added. Subtending bracts 3 or 4, leaf-like. Spikelets compressed, ovate, 5-9 mm long, 6-10-flowered. Glumes lanceolate, 2.5-4.0 mm long, keel excurrent into 0.5 mm long, variably recurved awn, nervose. Flowering time Dec., Jan. Nutlet obovate, 1.8 mm long, 3-angled (obscurely angled on back), brown, surface puncticulate.