Ficinia stolonifera Boeckeler

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.03-0.48 m high, ‘stoloniferous’. Leaf blades rigid, inrolled (C-shaped), ± 0.5 mm wide. Culm ridged, rigid, ± 0.5 mm in diam. Inflorescence a head of 1-6 spikelets, 3-10 mm in diam. Subtending bracts 1(2), lower erect with base broadened, membranous, white, leaf-like blade longer than inflorescence, upper spreading, much shorter. Spikelets ovate, 4-7 x 2-3 mm, 3-8-flowered. Glumes boatshaped, 2-3 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Flowering time Oct.-Apr. Nutlet broadly elliptic to obovoid, including gynophore ± 2 mm long, obscurely 3-angled (± spherical), greyish black, surface minutely reticulate. Gynophore relatively large, margins lobed.