Flora of New Zealand Series

; Holotype: CHR 309513! P. A. Williams & P. Wardle Woolsack, Okuru district Sth Westland, abundant on range of slopes, 4800 ft, below limit of C. pallens and C. crassiuscula, 1.4.79.

Leaf-sheath to 20 cm. Leaf-blade to 85 cm × 7 mm, abaxially with long hairs aside midrib at base; margin thick, long hairy below, becoming glabrous above. Inflorescence to 25 cm; rachis, branches and pedicels hairy or scabrid, sometimes glabrous below and ornamented above, long hairs below spikelets. Lemma to 6.5 mm; lateral lobes to 6 mm, triangular-acute or with awn to 2.5 mm, sometimes shortly lobed again; central awn to 16 mm from twisting column to 2 mm. Anthers to 4.5 mm.

S.: west of the Main Divide from Lake Kaniere to Fiordland, and south-east to Longwood Range; St.: Mt Anglem. Low scrub, and tussock grassland on poorly drained sites and bogs; 500-1450 m.