Baloskion Raf.

Mid culms with sterile branches Baloskion
Culms unbranched, 30–100 cm high. Spikelets in a narrow terminal panicle or raceme. Perianth segments 6 in the male flowers, 4 in the female
Sheaths on the upper portion of the culm mostly with an apical tuft of fine hairs 1–4 mm long. Glumes mostly fringed with fine hairs. Culms erect, wiry, 20–80 cm high. Spikelets ovate to globular, 4–7 mm long. North-west Hornsby Plateau; Blue Mts Damp sandy soils on swamp margins Baloskion fimbriatum
Apex of all the leaf sheaths glabrous or fringed with hairs less than 0.25 mm long. Glumes glabrous to ciliolate