Schoenus triticoides is a species with ivory coloured culm bases and leaf sheaths, which are open and membranaceous.

[1] The inflorescence of this species is a relatively long and straw coloured spike-like panicle that somewhat resembles the flowering heads of wheat.

It appears that part of this problem is caused by the tendency of the southern African Schoenus to form hybrids with each other.

[2] Southern African Schoenus were once classified as Tetraria; however, based on molecular and morphological differences, we now know that the two groups are evolutionary distinct.

[6] Schoenus triticoides is known to occur near Tierhuiskloof in the Western Cape Province of South Africa, where it has been observed growing along a jeep trail on a lower mountain slope.