Flora of New Zealand Series

Turf-forming, to ± 5 cm high with numerous slender short rhizomes and stolons. Leaves moderately hairy, usually reddish-green. Flowering stems sunk among leaves, scarcely elongating in fruit. Flowers 2-2.5 mm long. Stamens 6. Seeds with long caruncle.

N. Volcanic Plateau; in tussock, scrub or on stony river flats. S. Otago Peninsula at Hoopers Inlet; in sand hollows.