Scleria greigiifolia (Ridl.) C.B.Clarke

Perennial. Rhizome elongate or contracted, 6-10 mm thick; scales brown or reddish-brown. Culms: 1-2 m tall, glabrous. Leaves mostly crowded towards base of culm, 5-12 mm broad, tapering smoothly towards apex or, rarely, unequally laterally praemorse; glabrescent or hispidulous; sheaths with concave mouths, the margins minutely ciliate. Inflorescence with lax, copious terminal panicle c. 150 mm long and smaller lateral panicles 4-7 per node at 2-3 nodes exserted up to 200 mm from sheaths. Bracts foliaceous. Male spikelets sessile-shortly pedicillate, c. 5 mm long; glumes reddish-black proximally, castaneous distally; midrib hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate. Female glumes similarly coloured, shortly awned, midrib and awn hispidulous, margins setulose-ciliate and distal half of adaxial surface with dense indumentum of stiff, upward-pointing hairs. Achene broadly ovoid, laterally compressed, strongly beaked, 6 x 3.5 mm; glabrous, smooth, pale brown or pinkish-brown sometimes with violet blotches; hypogynium zoniform, brown.