Taprooted perennial or annual. Leaves rosetted, narrow-oblanceolate to obovate, mostly 3–15 cm long and 8–40 mm wide, acute to obtuse, pubescent, 3–5-veined, margins entire or toothed; petiole to c. 10 cm long. Spike cylindric, mostly 6–10 cm long at anthesis, elongating to 30 cm in fruit, rather loose at maturity; peduncles 5–40 cm long, pubescent; bracts ovate-elliptic, 1–1.5 mm long, obtuse, glabrous to pubescent. Sepals elliptic, usually 1.5–2 mm long, subequal; corolla-tube 1–2 mm long, lobes 0.7–1 mm long, spreading or reflexed; anthers 0.5–0.8 mm long, exserted. Capsule ovoid to subglobose, 1.7–3 mm long, style-base persistent; seeds 1–5, yellow to brown, lower 4 seeds elliptic, c. 1 mm long, apical seed smaller, irregular. Flowers mainly Sep.–Mar.
MuM, Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. All States. Widespread in southern Victoria where rather common in mesic forests and shaded sites in drier forests.
