Perennial herb, tufted, 0.08-0.32 m high. Leaf sheaths greyish, semipersistent; blades longer than culm, inrolled (C-shaped), ± 0.8 mm wide. Culm scapose, ± terete, 1.8-2.0 mm in diam. at middle. Inflorescence a compound head 7-12 mm in diam., of several dense heads of spikelets, lowest 2(-more) mm apart. Subtending bracts 3 or 4, lowest suberect, with dilated, blackish red base partly enveloping inflorescence and extended leaf-like tip, remainder shorter and suberect or spreading. Spikelets ovate, 5-7 mm long. Glumes lanceolate, 4.5-5.5 mm long, keel excurrent into slightly recurved awn up to 1 mm long, flanks nervose, bright chestnut-red to dark blackish red, margins colourless. Perianth of 6 slender, antrorsely scabrous, white bristles, longer than nutlet. Flowering time Nov., Dec., Mar., Apr. Nutlet sessile, elliptic, beaked, 3 mm long, 3-angled, greyish brown, surface minutely reticulate.
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Tufted, perennial herb, up to 200 mm high. Leaves wiry, slender, overtopping wiry culms. Flowers: compact head of dark brown spikelets; glumes dark brown; antrorsely scabrous hypogynous bristles; Nov.-Feb.
Yellowish green, tufted, perennial herb, up to 400 mm tall. Leaves longer than stem, linear-setaceous. Heads several, usually agglomerated. Glumes dark brown.
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