Ficinia acuminata Nees

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.15-0.70 m high. Leaf blades absent to short, inrolled (C-shaped), 0.5-0.8 mm wide. Culm lax or erect, ridged, ± filiform (with 1 lengthwise channel, 0.4-1.0 mm in diam. Inflorescence a head of to 30 spikelets. Subtending bracts 2, suberect, very short to longer than inflorescence, leaf-like. Spikelets 4-6 mm long, 3-12-flowered. Glumes oblong, 3-4 mm long, keel minutely excurrent. Flowering time Aug., Oct., Nov., Jan., Feb. Nutlet obovate, ± 1.8 mm long, 3-angled (± globose), dark reddish brown, surface smooth or minutely reticulate. Gynophore relatively large, distinctly lobed.