Lepyrodia fortunata B.G.Briggs & L.A.S.Johnson

Herb, hermaphrodite, with bisexual flowers, perennial, glabrous, caespitose. Cataphylls tan or blackish, not glossy, 0.3–1.0 cm long, truncate; lamina short, 1–4.5 mm long, erect, linear. Culms few, terete, erect, 0.2–1 m long, 0.5–1.8 mm diam., smooth or slightly rugose, unbranched or with 1 or 2 inflorescence branches 2–6 cm long; lowest internode short, 1.5–2.5 cm long; upper internodes long, 7–15 cm. Sheaths 4–9, persistent, closely appressed to the culm except when subtending a branch; brown, smooth or subrugose; 0.6–3.0 cm long. Inflorescence of clusters of flowers crowded on the culm or on short side branches up to 4 cm long; the lower clusters separated from the upper by up to 14 cm. Spathes shorter than branches, 0.6–1.2 cm long. Floral bracts 2, broad lanceolate, 2.5–3.5 mm long, acute or with a short aristate tip to 2 mm long. Flowers: tepals rigid, brown, abruptly tapered to an acute apex or a very short mucro, with a very narrow indistinct membranous margin; outer tepals slightly longer than inner, 3.5–3.8 mm long, lanceolate, keel thickened but not folded; inner tepals concave to flat, broad lanceolate; anthers c. 1 mm long; styles very shortly connate at the base. Seeds white, ellipsoidal, c. 1.1 mm long, colliculate with irregular elliptical raised areas overlain by parallel striations.

Found growing in peaty sand in a swamp with Agonis parviceps and sedges, and in a seasonally wet swale behind a foredune; sometimes very locally frequent.