Gymnoschoenus
Densely tufted perennials. Culms rigid, nodeless. Leaves basal; blade rigid, flat or concave; ligule membranous and ciliate; sheath long-ciliate on upper margins. Inflorescence a dense, globose head; involucral bracts leaf-like. Spikelets numerous, compressed, with 1 bisexual flower and a male one below it; glumes 6–8, ± distichous, lowest few sterile and remaining with inflorescence when uppermost glumes and nut fall; hypogynous bristles 2 or 3, filiform, antrorsely scabrous; stamens 3; style 3-fid. Nut with the outermost layer loose, thin, easily removed.
2 species, endemic to Australia, in southern States.
Wilson, K.L. (1994). Cyperaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 238–356. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
