- ≡ Phyllachne subulata (Hook.f.) F.Muell., J. Bot. 16: 174 (1878)
- ≡ Oreostylidium subulatum (Hook.f.) Berggr.
Glab. herb with short stock, deeply descending taproot, emitting slender stolons or rhizomes with internodes up to ± 6 cm. long. Lvs densely tufted, spreading, ± recurved, sessile, entire, 10–40 × 1–2–(3) mm., linear, shallowly concavo-convex, mucronate, sts almost pungent. Peduncles 1-fld, rather stout, glab. to pubescent, sts still not > 5 mm. long when capsule mature, sts elongating to ± 2 cm long. Bracts, if present, lflike. Fls 4–5 mm. diam.; receptacle adnate to ovary, ± glandular-pubescent. Calyx-lobes 1–2 mm. long, persistent, ascending, oblong, obtuse, ± mucronate. Corolla-lobes patent, oblong, obtuse, white. Capsule 5–8 × 4–5 mm., broad-ovoid to subglobose to obovoid.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1. as Oreostylidium subulatum (Hook.f.) Berggr.]
Flowering: Nov.–Mar.; Fruiting: Jan.–Jun.