Carex lessoniana Steud.
Robust, rhizomatous, to 1.5 m high. Female spikes in twos, threes or occasionally fives at each inflorescence-node, red-brown, on often short peduncles. Utricles 3-3.5 mm long, easily punctured, beak minute. Stigmas 2.
N., S. Lowland in peat swamps.
