Schoenus arenicola T.L.Elliott & Muasya

Perennial herb, tufted, up to 0.6 m high. Leaves: sheaths entire, ± smooth, shining, brownish red; blades ± 0.8 mm wide, shallowly C-shaped. Culm scapose, rigid, terete, ± 1.2 mm in diam. Inflorescence a reduced, compact panicle of 3-6 groups of erect spikelets at culm apex, each group of 1 sessile and 1 shortly stalked spikelet per branch. Subtending bracts blades leaf-like, longer than spikelets. Spikelets flattened, lanceolate, ± 10 mm long, with glumes ± 2-ranked. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 6 mm long, keel non-excurrent or excurrent into minute point. Perianth of 5 or 6 short, linear bristles. Flowering time Aug. Nutlet elliptic, excluding style base ± 3 mm long, obscurely 3-angled, light brown, crowned by large, dark, conical, glabrous style base, surface with angles thickened, otherwise minutely trabeculate.