OregonFlora species comparison

sheath fronts green and veined throughout; except for a white-hyaline triangle to 6 mm long near the top, sometimes prolonged 1.5–6 mm above the base of the blade;

blades (2.5)3–4(5) mm wide.

0.9–5 mm wide, green; flat to V-shaped in cross section.

3.5–8 cm × 10– 13 mm, elongated but with overlapping spikes, green to straw-colored;

spikes ovate, gynaecandrous.

lateral 1–3 female spikes, 1–3 cm long; erect or ascending or the lower one often nodding on its slender peduncle; terminal 1–3 spikes male, 1–4 cm long; well separated from the female spikes.

ovate to broadly ovate, 3.2–4.2 × 1.7–2.1 mm, green, white, or straw-colored, with 1–8 veins on each face;

beak white or straw-colored at tip, winged and ciliate-serrulate; (1.5)1.8–2.4 mm from top of achene to tip of beak;

stigmas 2.

2.2–5.5 × 1.1– 2.9 mm, green to straw-colored or often reddish brown to blackish; shiny, with 2 ribs and otherwise veinless or with obscure dorsal veins;

apex abruptly narrowed at the beak;

beak 0.2–0.8 mm long;

teeth 0.3 mm long; straight;

stigmas 2(3);

styles persistent, usually becoming curved.

lenticular; (1.3)1.5–1.8 × 0.9–1.2 mm, 0.4–0.5 mm thick.

lenticular or trigonous.

2.7–3.5 mm long; shorter and narrower than the perigynia, white hyaline or straw-colored;

midrib green; straw-colored, or brown.

as long as or shorter than the perigynia;

apex acute to acuminate; awnless.

=78, 80.