ملف:Eleocharis minuta plant4 - Flickr - Macleay Grass Man.jpg

Introduced, warm season, perennial sedge, sometimes producing short stolons or rhizomes. Culms are mostly tufted, rounded, grooved, 5–15 cm long and about 0.5 mm diam. Spikelets are ovoid or oblong-ovoid, 3–7 mm long. Glumes are rather prominently keeled, about 1.7 mm long and straw-coloured tinged dark red-brown. Bristles are 5–7, unequal, shorter or longer than nut, retrorsely scabrous, whitish and strongly united at the base. Stamens 2. Style 2-fid. Nuts are rather turgidly biconvex, with angles ± ribbed, obovoid, shining, minutely reticulate, 0.8–1 mm long and pale green to dark greenish brown. Flowering is from spring to summer and often occurs in the first year. A native of Africa and Madagascar, it grows in swamps and sandy shores of coastal lakes.