Isolepis wakefieldiana

Slender tufted perennial, occasionally proliferating from the inflorescence. Culms to 40 cm high, to 1 mm diam. Leaf-blades occasionally to 6 cm long. Spikelets 3–15 per inflorescence or solitary, sessile, 3–5 mm long; involucral bract often exceeding inflorescence, to 16 mm long; glumes obtuse, minutely mucronate, sides with 4–7 irregular nerves, hyaline to straw-coloured or dark red-brown, 1.5–2 mm long; stamens 1 or rarely 2; style usually 3-fid. Nut ± unequally trigonous, obovoid to ellipsoid or broad-ellipsoid, striate and trabeculate, shining, straw-coloured, about half as long as glume, 0.7–0.9 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm diam. Flowers summer.