Chordifex hookeri

Chordifex hookeri has a rhizome horizontally to 0.2 metres (7.9 in) with a diameter to 6 mm., with hairy internodes and broad scales. The leaves are reduced to scales with sheath at the stem. The sheaths are up to 20 mm long loosely grasping below spreading to the upper half. The sheaths are short apex obtuse and bluntly mucronate with woolly hairs. The culm is approximately 0.50 mm with a diameter of 0.75-1.75 mm. Chordifex hookeri has a raceme inflorescence, where the flower has been reduced to a solitary spikelet or panicle. These are ovoid to subspherical. The male spikelet is 7.58 mm long with several flowers while the female spikelet is 6–7 mm long with a few flowers. The male flower have 3 stamens with anthers at about 2 mm. The female flower has 3 staminodes at 2,5 mm long which are joined at the base. Glumes are empty with a length of 3-5mm and woolly-hairy at the apex. Flowers are compressed to 6 perianth segmented with leaves as lanceolate-elliptic. The capsule is 3 mm long with a 2-locular, dehiscent along the thicken margins.

Chordifex hookeri is endemic to Tasmania. It is found it mainly found in the South West of Tasmania, such as the Southwest National Park and the Southwest Conservation Area, where it is abundant and widely distributed. It can also be seen along the west coast stretching to the far north.