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Volume III (1980) - Flora of New Zealand Adventive Cyperaceous, Petalous & Spathaceous Monocotyledons
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Luzula decipiens Edgar

L. decipiens Edgar N.Z.J. Bot 13, 1975, 797.

Turf-forming, to ± 5 cm high with numerous slender short rhizomes and stolons. Leaves moderately hairy, usually reddish-green. Flowering stems sunk among leaves, scarcely elongating in fruit. Flowers 2-2.5 mm long. Stamens 6. Seeds with long caruncle.

N. Volcanic Plateau; in tussock, scrub or on stony river flats. S. Otago Peninsula at Hoopers Inlet; in sand hollows.

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