Ficinia secunda Kunth

Perennial herb, long-rhizomatous or tufted, 0.15-0.50 m high. Leaves with sheath margins white or brown, often much lacerated; blades ± as long as culm, channelled (C-shaped), narrowing and becoming solid towards apex, 0.6 mm wide. Culm terete, ± 1.2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a simple, ± secund spike 50-125 mm long, in which the sessile mostly solitary spikelets are spaced 3-6 mm apart. Subtending bracts similar to leaves, longer than spike. Spikelets elliptic, 5-6 mm long. Glumes boat-shaped, 3-4 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Flowering time Oct.? Nutlet obovate-elliptic, including gynophore ± 2.2 mm long, 3-angled, black, surface rugose. Gynophore large, margins lobed.