Carex fascicularis Boott
Large pale green soft tufts to 1.2 m high. Leaves prominently septate-nodulose at base and on grey sheaths. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, pedunculate, 5-7 × 1 cm, light greenish-brown. Glumes much < long-beaked glabrous utricles. Stigmas 3.
N. North Auckland; Auckland. Lowland swamps.