Flora of New Zealand Series

Strict, grass-like, dark green tufts, (4) -8-25- (40) cm high. Leaves rigid, margins usually incurved. Flowers 2-2.5 mm long; tepals dark brown almost black with red-brown margins. Stamens 6.

N., S., St. ( var. petriana); Ant., A., C. ( var. crinita). Herbfield and fellfield in regions of high rainfall.