[1] 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.

[2] Chordifex hookeri is a native herb commonly found in infertile poorly-drained acid peaty soil, which are thin or skeletal.

[4] Chordifex hookeri is found in buttongrass moorlands, low land sedgelands and restionaceae rushland from near-sea level to about 1000m.

[5] In buttongrass moorland it is found in the understory as a part of the sedge layer and is a dominant species on slopes.

[4][6] In restionaceae rushland Chordifex hookeri is a dominant species, it grows in deep peat soil across a range of infertile substrates.

Chordifex hookeri is dominating in western lowland sedgeland where it grows in siliceous gravel on infertile soil.