Ficinia nigrescens (Schrad.) J.Raynal

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.07-0.60 m high. Leaves with sheaths pale brown to red; blades lax, flat or infolded and slightly curved, 0.5-2.0 mm wide. Culm wiry or rigid, filiform to 1 mm in diam. Inflorescence a terminal, head (spike of spikelets), ± 20 x 50 mm. Subtending bracts suberect, filiform, dilated bases with margins tapering gradually to meet extended apex, up to 100 mm long. Spikelet bracts with recurved apices, light to dark brown or with pale yellowish margins and a dark central area. Spikelets 1-7-flowered. Glumes linear-acuminate, ± 4.5 mm long, keel scabrid in upper 1l2. Flowering time Aug., Oct., Nov., Apr.-July. Nutlet narrowly elliptic, including gynophore ± 2.5 mm long, dark brown, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore large, margins lobed.