Pycreus macranthus C.B.Clarke

Perennial herb, long-rhizomatous, 0.05-0.76 m high. Leaf blades 2-4(-5) mm wide, flat, V-shaped or inrolled. Culm scapose, 3-angled, 1-2(-5) mm in diam. Inflorescence ± head-like, of 2-20 sessile or subsessile spikelets, often with 1 or 2 stalked clusters of sessile or subsessile spikelets added. Subtending bracts 2 or 3, leaf-like, erect to spreading. Spikelets often of unequal lengths in same head, compressed, lanceolate to linear, 5(-25) x 4.0-5.5 mm. Glumes ovate, lanceolate, 3-5 mm long, keel nonexcurrent. Flowering time Dec., Jan., Apr., June. Nutlet obovate, 1.5 x 1 mm, biconvex (± spherical), black, surface transversely muricate, cells elongated lengthwise.