Fuirena pubescens (Poir.) Kunth

Perennial herb, tufted to long-rhizomatous, 0.15-1.00 m high. Leaf blades 2.5-5.0 mm wide, flat or V-shaped. Culm nodose, 3-angled, 1.0-1.5 mm in diam. below inflorescence. Inflorescence variable, in 2 or 3 loose, subterminal spikes. Subtending bracts erect. Spikelets elliptical, up to 12.5(-18.0) x 4 mm. Glumes lanceolate, 1.0-1.6 (-1.8) mm long, keel excurrent into ± 1.5 mm long awn. Perianth: outer whorl absent; inner whorl absent. Flowering time Sept.-Feb. Nutlet obovate, 1.0-1.6(-1.8) mm long, 3-angled, white to greyish (small opaque white nutlets are infertile), surface smooth, often irregularly tuberculate; pericarp epidermal cells minute, rectangular.