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- = Agrostis parviflora var. perpusilla Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. II. (Fl. Nov.-Zel.) Part I, 296 (1853)
- = Agrostis canina var. γ Hook.f., Handb. New Zealand Fl. 328 (1864)
- = Agrostis aemula subsp. β spathacea Berggr., Minneskrift Utgifven af Kongl. Fysiografiska Sällskapet i Lund 8:32,t.7,figs 41-47 (1878)
Small, tight, pale green or glaucous perennials, forming rounded cushions or mats 0.6–2–(6) cm high and up to 10 cm diam., with many culms, much-branched at base; branching intravaginal. Leaf-sheath hyaline, whitish, glabrous, conspicuously, sparsely ribbed, usually completely concealing culms, much wider than and sometimes longer than leaf-blade. Ligule 0.5–1.5–(4) mm, truncate to acute, usually lacerate or fimbriate, abaxially with scattered prickle-teeth. Leaf-blade (0.1)–0.4–1.2–(4) cm × 0.2–0.4 mm diam., involute, spreading and recurved, abaxially smooth, adaxially ribbed, finely scabrid on ribs; margins minutely scabrid, tip obtuse. Culm erect, internodes glabrous. Panicle usually almost hidden among leaf-sheaths, often recurved, contracted to a minute, dense, ovate head 3.5–7 mm, with few or many spikelets; rachis, branches and pedicels very short, minutely, sparsely scabrid. Spikelets 1.5–2 mm, greenish. Glumes ± equal, ovate-lanceolate, acute, keel green, scabrid, margins wide, glabrous, hyaline, minutely ciliate near tip. Lemma 1.2–1.4 mm, glabrous, faintly 5-nerved, ovate-oblong, truncate, awnless. Palea 0.2–0.4 mm, orbicular or ovate. Lodicules 0.2–0.3 mm. Callus glabrous. Anthers 0.4–0.6 mm. Caryopsis 0.7–1 × 0.3–0.4 mm. 2n= 42.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]