Flora of New Zealand Series

; Holotype: CHR 362702! H. D. Wilson Mt Anglem, Stewart Id, summit area, 4.2.1980.

Slender lax tufts with culms 15-40 cm. Leaf-sheath glabrous or sometimes shortly pubescent-scabrid near margins. Ligule (0.5)-1-2 mm. Leaf-blade (4)-8-20 cm, flaccid, soft, flat to folded, occasionally entirely smooth or with finely scabrid midrib and margins. Panicle 4-7.5 cm. Spikelets 5.5-7.5 mm. Glumes ± unequal, elliptic, acute; lower 3-4.5 mm, upper 4-5 mm. Lemma 3.5-4.5 mm, oblong-elliptic, obtuse. Palea 3-4 mm. Anthers 0.5-0.7 mm.

St.: Mt Anglem, summit. In Chionochloa crassiuscula grassland among rocks.

Endemic.