{{Short description|Species of flowering plants}} {{Use New Zealand English|date=January 2025}} {{Speciesbox | image = Luzula_rufa_-_Richard_Littauer_-_465468451.jpeg | image_caption = ''Luzula rufa'' in Nelson Lakes National Park | image_alt = A small tuft of Luzula rufa in a Raoulia | status = NT | status_system = NZTCS | status_ref = <ref name=":0"/> | genus = Luzula | species = rufa | authority = Edgar }}
'''''Luzula rufa''''', or '''red woodrush''',<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Luzula rufa var. rufa |url=https://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora/species/luzula-rufa-var-rufa/ |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network |language=en}}</ref> is a species of rush that is endemic to New Zealand.<ref name="inaturalist-Luzula rufa">{{cite web |title=Luzula rufa |url=https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/403624-Luzula-rufa |website=iNaturalist |access-date=19 February 2025 |language=en-US}}</ref>
==Description== ''Luzula rufa'' is perennial.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=Luzula rufa Edgar {{!}} Plants of the World Online {{!}} Kew Science |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:443925-1 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Plants of the World Online |language=en}}</ref> Its growth pattern is scattered and grass-like, with long thin stems. The inflorescence is a single head, with one to three clusters. The tepals and the capsules are red brown, and get darker as the plant ages.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Luzula rufa Edgar - Biota of NZ |url=https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/313d5ecd-005c-43e0-a028-13ff94d97945 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240523150922/https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/313d5ecd-005c-43e0-a028-13ff94d97945 |archive-date=2024-05-23 |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz |language=en}}</ref>
==Range and habitat== This plant grows across New Zealand on all three main islands and the Chatham Islands.<ref name=":1" />
==Ecology== It grows together with ''Dracophyllum'' and ''Celmisia'' in alpine communities.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wier |first1=David A. |last2=Wilson |first2=J. Bastow |date=January 1988 |title=Micro-pattern in an area of New Zealand alpine vegetation |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00031855 |journal=Vegetatio |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=81–88 |doi=10.1007/bf00031855 |issn=0042-3106|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
==Etymology== ''rufa'' is a reference to the colour of the plant, and means 'rusty'.<ref name=":0" />
==Taxonomy== ''Luzula rufa'' contains the following varieties: * ''Luzula rufa'' var. ''albicomans''<ref name="inaturalist-Luzula rufa" /> * ''Luzula rufa'' var. ''rufa''<ref name="inaturalist-Luzula rufa" />
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