- = Agrostis muelleri var. paludosa Hack. in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 864 (1906)
Small, finely rhizomatous tufts 3–5–(20) cm, with fine, pale green or blue-green, to light brown leaves, and narrowly branched, delicate panicles usually scarcely overtopping leaves; branching extravaginal at base, intravaginal above. Leaf-sheath ± hyaline, light green to light brown, glabrous, ribs few, prominent. Ligule 0.1–0.6 mm, truncate, minutely ciliate or erose, abaxially glabrous. Leaf-blade 0.8–2.5 cm × 0.2–0.4 mm diam., narrow-linear, involute, filiform, abaxially smooth except near blunt, minutely scabrid tip, adaxially usually finely scabrid on ribs. Culm slender, erect, internodes glabrous. Panicle 0.6–2–(3) cm, open, ovate to pyramidal, with few, minutely, sparsely ciliate branches each tipped by a single spikelet. Spikelets (1.2)–1.5–2 mm, pale green to light creamy brown, sometimes purplish. Glumes ± equal, and usually ≈ lemma, ovate-lanceolate, subobtuse, keel scabrid near tip, margins sometimes finely ciliate near tip. Lemma 1.2–1.8 mm, glabrous, faintly 5-nerved, ovate, obtuse or almost truncate, awnless. Palea 0.4–0.6 mm, ovate. Lodicules 0.2–0.4 mm. Callus glabrous. Anthers 0.4–0.7–(1) mm. Caryopsis c. 1 × 0.5 mm.
[From: Edgar and Connor (2000) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 5 (second printing).]