Flora of New Zealand Series

Type locality: Rangitata Valley, near Potts River bridge. Type: CHR, 149586, E. Edgar, 29/10/1964.

Stoloniferous, in low-growing small, brownish, cushion-like tufts. Lvs 1–3 cm. long, lamina often involute towards the base, tip acute, margins villous with thickly clustered white hairs. Flowering stems much < lvs, scarcely elongating as fr. matures. Infl. 6–16-fld, a single subsessile cluster, occ. with a smaller pedunculate side cluster; subtending bracts 1–3, > infl. Fls c. 2 mm. long; tepals membr., almost entirely white except for a short, light brown stripe in the centre. Stamens 3. Capsule ± = tepals, pale brown. 2n = 12.

DIST.: S. Known only from the Upper Awatere Valley in Marlborough, the Harper, South Ashburton and Potts Rivers and Lake Tekapo, Canterbury, and Hoopers Inlet, Otago Peninsula.

In sandy ground, often within dried out Raoulia mats.

Rather similar to the cushion spp. of Luzula but distinguished by the pointed lf-tips.