Flora of New Zealand Series

Slender, dull red tufts; rhizome short. Stems elongating when mature to ± 50 cm, > rather narrow channelled leaves. Female spikes 2-3, ± approximate and sessile, except occasionally lowest, ± 1 cm × 4 mm, dark red-brown. Stigmas 3.

S. Nelson. Lowland to subalpine; in boggy ground.