Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Europe. Widely distributed in N. Hemisphere; recorded also from S. America but apparently not from Australia.

Slender herb with long rhizomes. Lvs 5–50 cm. long; ligule of 2 short rounded lobes; lamina c. 0.5 mm. diam., slightly channelled or semicircular in section, minutely ridged. Raceme c. = peduncle, to 15 cm. long in fr.; pedicels to 6 mm. long, rather closely appressed to axis. Fls c. 3 mm. long, greenish or reddish; stylar tips erect. Fr. 8–10 × 1 mm., narrow-linear, the 3 fertile follicles not keeled, separating first at their very narrow bases while remaining attached to top of triquetrous carpophore.

DIST.: S. Recorded only from a few inland localities in Canterbury and N. Otago, and collected recently only from Tekapo. Marsh Arrow-grass.

FL. 12. FT. 12–3.