Flora of New Zealand Series

Densely tufted or with short rhizome. Very variable in size; stems (2) -6-12- (20) cm high. Leaves many or few. Inflorescence of 1- (3) spikelets. Glumes usually red-brown with wide but not prominent green keels. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut plano-convex, rounded at tip and sharply apiculate, usually red-brown.

N., S., St., Ch., Ant., A., C. Coastal; in damp sand hollows and on rock. (Almost cosmopolitan).