Ficinia laciniata Nees

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.25-0.27 m high. Leaf blades flat, 1.0-1.2 mm wide. Culm ± terete, 1.0-1.2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a dense subglobose head, 8-12 mm in diam., of many sessile spikelets, or with lowermost few spikelets distant. Subtending bracts 2, suberect to spreading, leaf-like. Spikelets elliptic, ± 5 mm long. Glumes boatshaped, ± 3.2 mm long, keel not excurrent. Flowering time Aug.-Dec. Nutlet obovate, including gynophore 2 mm long, 3-angled (± globose), reddish brown appearing grey, surface minutely transversely ridged. Gynophore large, lobed.