Juncus scabriusculus Kunth

Small annuals 60-120(-300) mm tall. Leaves basal, narrowly linear, 40-80 mm long, c 2 mm broad, flat or folded. Inflorescences on erect peduncles just exserted from leaves. Capitulum apical, solitary or rarely with 1-2 smaller ones above, cup-shaped, compact, basal bracts short, resembling tepals, glumaceous; outer and inner tepals sub-equal, 6 mm long, aristate. Stamens 6, less than half as long as tepals; filaments equalling anthers. Ovary cylindrical-triangular, trilocular; style very short with 3 stigmas c. 3 mm long. Capsule cylindrical-triangular, shorter than tepals, obtuse, apiculate; placentas 3, persisting as a central column after dehiscence; seeds oblong, 0.75 mm long, obtuse, reticulate, brownish orange.