OregonFlora species comparison

1.7–4.2 mm wide.

sheath fronts white-hyaline;

blades 1.2–3(3.7) mm wide.

1.1–3 cm × 5–14 mm;

spikes 3–10, overlapping; more or less round, gynaecandrous; distinct.

1.1–3 cm × 5.4–16.3 mm, usually green to straw-colored (sometimes brownish in northern plants);

spikes gynaecandrous, overlapping but more or less distinguishable, often crowded; fine-textured because the perigynia are small.

ovate or elliptic; plano-convex, 2.5–3.8 × (1)1.2–2 mm, spreading, green when young, becoming reddish brown, with 3+ dorsal veins; the ventral side with 1–3 faint veins or veined only near the base;

wings 0.2–0.5 mm wide;

beak tips reddish brown, winged; and more or less ciliate-serrulate, 1.2–2.2 mm from top of achene to tip of beak;

stigmas 2.

lance-ovate to ovate, 2.4–3.5 × 0.9–1.9 mm, green; whitish; straw-colored, or light brown, with (0)2–11 dorsal veins and 0–6 ventral veins;

wings 0.15–0.3(0.4) mm wide;

beak tip winged and ciliate-serrulate nearly to the tip, or unwinged; parallel-sided; and more or less entire for the distal 0.4–0.7 mm, 1.2–2 mm from achene top to tip of beak;

stigmas 2.

lenticular, 1–1.3 × 0.6–0.9 mm, 0.3–0.4 mm thick.

lenticular, 1–1.6 × 0.7–1.25 mm.

2.5–3.5 mm long; shorter and narrower than their perigynia; reddish brown; mid-stripe green; pale, or brown.

2.1–3.5(3.9) mm long; shorter than or more or less covering the perigynia, white-hyaline to gold, occasionally brown.

=68, 70.

=84.