Tetraria pubescens Schönland & Turrill

Perennial herb, densely tufted, 0.03-0.08 m high. Leaves: sheaths golden-brown to reddish brown, old outer sheaths cancellate; blades 0.5 mm wide, C-shaped. Culm ± terete or 3-angled, 0.75 mm in diam. Inflorescence ± cryptic, a much-reduced panicle of (1-)3 sessile spikelets, 1 from each of uppermost nodes with lowermost remote from upper 2, ± 15 mm long. Subtending bracts sheathing culm, sheaths dark brown; blades leaf-like, green. Spikelets elliptic, 6-8 mm long; flowers 1 or 2, lower if present male, upper bisexual. Glumes: fertile lanceolate, 5.0-5.5 mm long, keel non-excurrent. Flowering time Apr. Nutlet obovate, ± 2.2 mm long, light greyish brown with large red spots in upper part; style base ± inconspicuous, surface hairy in upper part, otherwise minutely reticulate.