Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Schoenus L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Schoenus carsei Cheeseman (1906)
 Description

Rush-like; rhizome short, up to 3 mm. diam., with closely appressed, dark red-purple bracts. Culms 60–90 cm. long, us. slightly < 1 mm. diam., densely tufted, light green. Lvs reduced to brown, sheathing, mucronate bracts, the mucro more elongated in the uppermost bracts; mouth of sheath not ciliate. Panicle 8–15–(22) cm. long, very slender, with ± distant fascicles of 3–4 branchlets, each fascicle subtended by a short sheath similar to those at base of culm; branchlets filiform, flexuous, laterally compressed, edges not toothed, simple or branched again. Spikelets single at the tips of the branchlets, 7–10 mm. long, 2-fld, very narrow, compressed, linear-lanceolate, grey-brown. Glumes 5–7, closely imbricating, lanceolate, acute, almost entirely hyaline except near the midrib, margins not ciliate, 3–4 lower glumes and uppermost glume empty. Hypog. bristles 0, occ. 3, very minute. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 2 × 1mm., oblong-ovoid, obtuse, smooth, white.

[From: Moore and Edgar (1970) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 2.]

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Courtney, S.P.; Heenan, P.B.; Barkla, J.W.; Cameron, E.K.; Hitchmough, R.; Townsend, A.J. 2009: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand (2008 revision). New Zealand Journal of Botany 47: 61–96. [Nationally Endangered]
de Lange, P.J.; Norton, D.A.; Heenan, P.B.; Courtney, S.P.; Molloy, B.P.J.; Ogle, C.C.; Rance, B.D. 2004: Threatened and uncommon plants of New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Botany 42(1): 45–76.
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. [Nationally Critical]
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. [Nationally Endangered]