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Habitat: alpine, fernland, gravel, margin, moist, open, ridge, roadside, sand, shrubland, silt, wetland
Dispersal: Seed, vegetative
Recognition
- a low-growing perennial rush up to 25 cm high, mat-forming or densely tufted, with prostrate rooting stems.
- its stems are slender, swollen at the nodes, and rooting.
- its inflorescence is variable, unbranched or branched and open, and few-flowered.
- its capsules are 2-2.5 mm long, light brown, and with flattened apices.
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References
Howell, C. 2008: Consolidated list of environmental weeds in New Zealand. DOC Research & Development Series 292: 42.
