Ficinia dunensis Levyns

Perennial herb, tufted or long-rhizomatous, 0.25-0.50 m high. Leaf blades filiform, ± 1 mm wide, flat or C-shaped, margins scabrid. Culm ± terete, 0.8 mm in diam. Inflorescence a terminal, compact, elliptic to oblong head, up to 6 x 4 mm. Subtending bracts 2, erect, with dilated, shining yellow-brown to dark reddish brown bases and leaf-like apex up to 18 mm long. Spikelets ± 5 mm long, up to 5-flowered. Glumes boat-shaped, ± 6 x ± 4 mm, keel shortly excurrent. Flowering time Aug.-Oct., July. Nutlet elliptic to obovate, including gynophore 2.5-3.2 mm, ± 3-angled, dark brown to black, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore large, margins lobed.