Class
Order
Family
Genus
Robust, rhizomatous, to 1.8 m high. Male spikes with long-awned glumes; female spikes in twos or threes at each inflorescence-node, red-brown with long-awned glumes, peduncles erect to pendulous. Utricles 2–3 mm long; beak minute. Stigmas 2.
[From: Healy and Edgar (1980) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 3.]