Luzula banksiana var. orina Edgar

Plants usually 25–40 cm tall; stem c. 1.2–1.5 mm in diam. Basal leaves sparsely ciliate, often ±drooping, flaccid, usually to 55 cm long, (1.4–) 3.5–5.0 (–7.8) mm wide; cauline leaves usually 2 (–3), to 30 cm long. Lower bracts 1–2, usually (1.5–) 3–10 (–15) cm long, usually longer or occasionally shorter than inflorescence. Inflorescence rich, composed of c. 10–35 clusters; clusters mostly pedunculate, ±globular, c. 0.5–0.7 mm in diam.; peduncles straight to ±arcuate, usually 1.1–6.0 cm long, rarely to 14 cm long; secondary branches very frequent. Tepals narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, usually (2.0–) 2.5–3.5 (–4.3) mm long; middle stripe pale castaneous-brown; margins broad, ±membranous to straw-membranous. Anthers (0.7–) 0.9–1.3 (–1.7) mm long; filaments (0.3–) 0.4–0.7 (–0.9) mm long [anther:filament ratio (1.4–) 1.8–3.5 (–5.4)]; style (0.5–) 1.0–1.5 (–1.8) mm long; stigmas (1.5–) 2.0–3.6 mm long. Capsule obovoid, subacute, usually straw-brownish, shorter than perianth; capsule segments 1.8–2.5 × (1.0–) 1.2–1.6 mm. Seeds oblong-ovoid, c. 1.0–1.3 × 0.7–0.9 mm; appendage 0.1–0.2 (–0.3) mm long, ±fibrillate. 2n=12 [AL], fide H.Nordenskiöld, New Zealand J. Bot. 4: 188 (1966).