Citation: F. Muell. ex J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 677 (1929).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: None

Description:
Rhizome horizontal, rather stout, it and also the base of the stems with glossy dark-brown scales; stems in a linear series, fairly close together, stiff, terete, c. 1 mm thick, 30-60 cm high including the inflorescence, with or without a node in the upper part; leaves mostly near the base, rarely to 2.5 cm long, subulate, rigid, often reduced to a point, the sheaths rigid, glossy, dark-brown, glabrous.

Panicle 5-20 cm long, rather loose; lower sheathing bract to 2 cm long, the upper gradually shorter; spikelets on rather long clustered pedicels, lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, dark-purple, with 2 perfect flowers; glumes with ciliate margins, but the hairs wearing away with age, 3 or 4 empty; hypogynous bristles 3 or 5, very small, ciliate.

Nut obovoid-pyriform, c. 1.7 x 1 mm, trigonous with obtusely ribbed angles, sides more or less convex, rugose, reddish, dull, about a third the length of the glume.

Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan. and May.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: Probably synonymous with S. laevigatus W.V. Fitzg. of W.Aust. Resembles S. brevifolius R. Br., a species of W. Aust.; Qld; N.S.W.; Vic. and New Zealand, which has no hypogynous bristles and shorter bracts.

Author: Not yet available