Flora of New Zealand Series

Usually dark green tufts to 90 cm high. Leaves soft, double-folded. Inflorescence of 5-7 sessile, light reddish-brown spikes, ± 4 cm × 5 mm, terminal male spikes usually partly female. Glumes membranous. Utricles often scabrid on both surfaces of upper half. Stigmas 2.

N. North Auckland; Auckland; Taranaki; Hawkes Bay; Wellington. S. N.W. Nelson; Marlborough; Canterbury - Banks Peninsula. St. Usually in coastal scrub or forest.