Ficinia capitellum (Nees) Nees

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.15-0.37 m high. Leaf blades shorter than culms, flat to C-shaped, ± 1 mm wide. Culm ridged, terete, ± 1 mm in diam. Inflorescence a terminal, compact, globose head, 4-8 mm in diam. Subtending bracts 3 or 4, erect, with dilated, ± orbicular, shining blackish and yellow bases enveloping lower 3/4 of inflorescence and extended leaf-like apex up to 40 mm long. Spikelets up to 6-flowered. Glumes linear-lanceolate, ± 4 x ± 2 mm, keel excurrent into awn up to 0.5 mm long. Flowering time Aug. Nutlet obovate to elliptic, conspicuously beaked, including gynophore (1.3-)2.2 mm long, dark reddish brown, surface finely reticulate. Gynophore large, margins ± lobed.