Glabrous, ?perennial. Stems single or 2 together, c. 2-3 cm high, at the base with a few small leaves, at the top with a dense tuft of crowded leaves. Blades sessile, narrow-lanceolate, 5-10 by 2/5-3/5 mm; midrib distinct, margins nerve-like thickened and rough by distinct papillae, apex mucronate by hyaline hair-like cells, mucro sometimes forked. Peduncles 3-8 from the tuft, 1-flowered, exceedingly thin-filiform, terete, c. 2-3 cm. Flower subtended by 2 tiny, narrow, acute bracts ½ mm long. Fruit obliquely patent, linear, terete, with 2 longitudinal ribs, 7-8 by ½ mm, splitting from the top downwards with 2 valves; dissepiment 1/8 mm broad.
Coastal sandy Melaleuca savannah, collected together with Xyris oligantha, Restiona-ceae, etc., fr. July 1938.
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