Carex goyenii Petrie
Yellow-green stiff tufts to 70 cm high. Leaves much > stems, double-folded. Spikes 4-8, almost all female, ± approximate, to 4 cm × ± 5 mm, greenish-brown. Glumes < utricles. Stigmas 2.
S. Nelson; Marlborough; Canterbury; Otago. Damp places in tussock grassland and on river flats; montane to subalpine.