Restio triflorus Rottb.

Plants clumped or tufted, 0.25-0.50 m high; without spreading rhizomes or stolons. Culms branching, round, branch axil indumentum absent; solid or with a small central cavity, 0.6-1.4 mm in diam., roughly warty; clusters of sterile branches present at nodes of fertile branches. Leaf sheaths > 1 per culm, closely wrapped around culm. Male inflorescences with 2-10 slender, somewhat curved, acute spikelets; spathes persistent, shorter than spikelets, coriaceous or cartilaginous; bracts minutely awned or awn absent. Female inflorescences with 1-10 spikelets, sessile, narrowly elliptic, 5-25 mm long. Ovary unilocular; styles 2, plumose, white, stylopodium present. Flowering time Jan.-July. Fruit a dehiscent capsule; seed white, smooth.