Thamnochortus glaber Pillans

Plants clumped or tufted, 0.4-1.2 m high; rhizomes branched or unbranched. Culms unbranched, smooth, olive-green, clusters of sterile branches at nodes. Leaf sheaths closely convolute, red-brown, yellow-speckled, apical margins broadly chartaceous and decaying, hyaline shoulders absent. Male inflorescences with up to 100 spikelets; spathes persistent, upper margins lacerated. Spikelets pendulous on flexible pedicels. Bracts taller than flowers, hyaline or chartaceous. Female inflorescences with 2-10 spikelets; spathes persistent, chartaceous, shorter or as long as spikelets. Spikelets: pedicels 20-50 mm long; outer lateral tepals keeled or winged. Ovary unilocular; style single, plumose, white. Flowering time Aug., Sept. Fruit an indehiscent nut, with persistent oblong-winged dispersal unit.