Scleria catophylla C.B.Clarke

Perennial with two different kinds of propagative stems. Rhizome little more than the connective between ± contiguous culm bases; scales castaneous. Soboles sometimes produced from culm-bases, soft, terete, 10 mm long, with collateral vascular bundles. Culms solitary or clustered, 0.25-0.70 m tall, villous. Leaves 2-3 mm broad, usually villous, mostly crowded towards base of culm; mouths of sheaths truncate or concave, densely villous. Inflorescence unbranched, 40-180 mm long. Glomerules 4-15, of 1-7 reflexed sessile spikelets. Bracts glumiform, awned, densely black-hirsute, 6-7 mm long. Spikelets c. 6 mm long. Glumes densely blackish-hirsute, 2.5-4.5 mm long. Achene broadly ovoid to globose, 1.2-1.5 mm x 1 mm, glabrous, smooth, grey or grey-brown.