Classification
Class
Magnoliopsida Brongn.
Order
Poales Small
Family
Cyperaceae Juss.
Genus
Schoenus L.
 Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Schoenus maschalinus Roem. & Schult., Syst. Veg. 77 (1817)
Synonymy:
  • = Chaetospora axillaris R.Br., Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 233 (1810)
  • ≡ Schoenus axillaris (R.Br.) Poir., Encycl. (Lamarck) Suppl. 2. 251 (1811)
  • = Scirpus foliatus Hook.f. (1844)
  • ≡ Schoenus foliatus (Hook.f.) S.T.Blake (1940)
  • = Schoenus subaxillaris Kük. (1938)
Vernacular Name(s):
Dwarf bog rush
 Description

Small, flaccid, tufted or spreading, green and lfy. Culms (3)–5–15–(20) cm. × c. 0.5 mm., often trailing and rooting at the nodes, branched towards the tip, bright green. Lvs 1–3.5 cm. × 0.5–1 mm., almost flat, alternate, spreading, obtuse, margins us. slightly toothed towards lf-tip; sheath enclosing c. ⅓ internode, membr., often red-purple. Spikelets 1–3 in the axils of the lvs, 2–3 mm. long, 1–2-fld, light brown or reddish purple, sessile or on short, scabrid stalks. Glumes 5, ovate-lanceolate, ± obtuse, 2 lowest smaller, empty, membr., mucronate, 1–2 upper glumes fertile, margins hyaline, median nerve pale green. Hypog. bristles 6, rarely fewer, white or yellow-brown, thread-like, slightly > or occ. < nut persistent. Stamens 3. Style-branches 3. Nut c. 1 mm. long, slightly < 1 mm. wide, elliptic-ovoid, white, angles green and thickened, tip acute, occ. with a small trigonous, persistent style-base.

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

 Biostatus
Indigenous (Non-endemic)
 Bibliography
1817: Systema Vegetabilium. Vol. 2.
Brown, R. 1810: Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae et Insulae Van-Diemen. Johnson, London.
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. [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. [Not Threatened]
Poiret, J.L.M. 1811–1812: Encyclopédie Méthodique, Botanique. Vol. Supplement 2.