Schoenus cuspidatus Rottb.

Perennial herb, tufted, 0.01-0.80 m high. Leaves: sheaths entire, dark red; blades 1.0-1.2 mm wide, C-shaped. Culm scapose, rigid, 1-2 mm in diam. Inflorescence: panicle reduced or highly branched, (20-)40-100 mm long, spikelets few to many. Subtending bracts with bases only slightly dilated, distinctively dark reddish brown, extended apex green, leaf-like. Spikelets ± flattened, broadly lanceolate, ± 6 mm long. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, ± 5 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Perianth absent. Flowering time all year. Nutlet broadly elliptic, excluding style base 1.5-1.8 mm long, 3angled, light brown; style base high pyramidal hispid, surface minutely reticulate.