Flora of New Zealand Series

Short, broad, dull red or blue-green tufts to 6 cm high; rhizome short. Leaves concavo-convex, almost flat, hardly narrowed to strikingly obtuse tip. Female spikes 2, crowded round male, < 1 cm long, red-brown. Stigmas 2 or 3.

N. Kaimanawa Range. S. Canterbury; Otago; rare elsewhere. In boggy ground or damp river flats or lake shores; lowland to subalpine.