Flora of New Zealand Series

Large leafy tufts to 1.2 m high, red-brown at base. Female spikes c. 5, ± distant, ± pedunculate, 6-11 cm × 5-11 mm, greenish. Utricles tapering to a long beak with oblique bifid orifice. Stigmas 3.

N., S. Common in Nelson, Marlborough, Canterbury, rare further south; not known from Westland. Lowland forest.