Carex kaloides Petrie
Reddish- or yellow-green tussocks to 75 cm high; rhizome stout, long or short. Inflorescence usually 7-18 cm long, narrow, branches short with many pale straw-coloured ± distant sessile spikes. Male flowers above female. Stigmas 2.
S. Marlborough; Canterbury; Otago - south to Clutha River. Drier ground above swamps, lakes and river flats; lowland to montane.
