Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Netrostylis R.L.Barrett, J.J.Bruhl & K.L.Wilson
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Netrostylis capillaris (F.Muell.) R.L.Barrett, J.J.Bruhl & K.L.Wilson, Telopea 24: 57 (2021)
Synonymy:
  • ≡ Chaetospora capillacea Hook.f., Bot. Antarct. Voy. III. (Fl. Tasman.) Part II, 81, t.141A (1858) nom. illeg.
  • ≡ Chaetospora capillaris F.Muell. (1875) nom. nov. pro Chaetospora capillacea Hook.f. 1858
  • ≡ Schoenus capillaris (F.Muell.) F.Muell. (1882) nom. illeg.
  • ≡ Cladium capillaceum (Hook.f.) C.B.Clarke in Cheeseman, Man. New Zealand Fl. 789 (1906)
  • ≡ Mariscus capillaceus (Hook.f.) Fernald, (1923)
  • ≡ Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black (1934)
  • ≡ Machaerina capillacea (Hook.f.) T.Koyama, Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 69: 63 (1956) nom. illeg.
Type: Australia: Tasmania: Dry sandy banks by the Kermandie [River], Hospital Bay, south Huon River, [1850s], A.F. Oldfield 145 (holo: K 000960101!)
 Description

Rhizome c. 1 mm. diam., often much elongated, covered with red or pale brown, membr., imbricate bracts. Culms (15)–30–80–(110) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., tufted, wiry, shining, light green. Basal lvs reduced to red, mucronate, sheathing bracts; the uppermost up to 15 cm. long, with a very slender mucro-like lamina, up to 5 mm. long. Panicle 1.5–3 cm. long, of 3–7, us. stalked spikelets; subtending bracts with a long lamina > spikelets. Spikelets c. 5 mm. long, narrow, dark brown or reddish, 2–(1)-fld. Glumes distichous, lanceolate, acuminate, with white membr. margins, the upper 1–2 pubescent towards the tip, the others glab., the lower 3–4 and the upper 1–2 empty. Hypog. bristles 0. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 1.5 × 1 mm., ellipsoid or oblong-ovoid, light brown with 3 white ribs, surface smooth, crowned by a pubescent, persistent style-base, as long as the nut but much narrower throughout.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2. as Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Phenology

Flowering: Dec.–Feb.; Fruiting: Feb.–Apr.

 Bibliography
Barrett, R.L.; Bruhl, J.J.; Wilson, K.L. 2021: Netrostylis, a new genus of Australasian Cyperaceae removed from Tetraria. Telopea 24: 53–60.
Cheeseman, T.F. 1906: Manual of the New Zealand Flora. Government Printer, Wellington.
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Barkla J.W.; Courtney, S.P.; Champion, P.D.; Perrie, L.R.; Beadel, S.N.; Ford, K.A.; Breitwieser, I.; Schönberger, I.; Hindmarsh-Walls, R.; Heenan, P.B.; Ladley, K. 2018: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2017. New Zealand Threat Classification Series. No. 22. [as Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black] [Not Threatened]
de Lange, P.J.; Rolfe, J.R.; Champion, P.D.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Norton, D.A.; Hitchmough, R.A. 2013: Conservation status of New Zealand indigenous vascular plants, 2012. New Zealand Threat Classification Series 3. Department of Conservation, Wellington. [as Tetraria capillaris (F.Muell.) J.M.Black] [Not Threatened]
Hooker, J.D. 1858–1859: The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror in the Years 1839–1843, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross. III. Flora Tasmaniae. Part II. Monocotyledones and acotyledones. Lovell Reeve, London.
Koyama, T. 1956: Taxonomic Study of Cyperaceae V. Botanical Magazine (Tokyo) 69: 59–67.