Thamnochortus fruticosus P.J.Bergius

Plants mat-forming, 0.25-0.60 m high; with rhizomes looping up, with clusters of culms on loops. Culms unbranched, velvety pubescent, silvery grey; clusters of compact sterile branches at nodes. Leaf sheaths closely convolute, red-brown with yellow speckles, apical margins narrowly membranous or broadly membranous, hyaline shoulders absent. Male inflorescences with up to 50 spikelets; spathes persistent, upper margins lacerated; spikelets pendulous on flexible pedicels; bracts taller than flowers, hyaline or chartaceous. Female inflorescences with 2-20 spikelets; spathes persistent, chartaceous, shorter than or as long as spikelets. Spikelets: pedicel simple or branched, 10-25 mm long; outer lateral tepals keeled or winged. Ovary unilocular; style single, plumose, white. Flowering time July-Nov. Fruit an indehiscent nut with persistent oblong winged dispersal unit.