OregonFlora species comparison

flat; grass-like;

auricles absent.

lacking blades;

distal sheaths 3–10 cm, light brown.

1–35 clusters; clusters 3–10-flowered, sometimes bearing leafy bulblets;

inflorescence bracts inconspicuous, membranous; shorter than or equaling inflorescence.

a more or less loose cluster of 4–15 flowers, usually attached near or below middle of stems (stems here including erect inflorescence bracts above inflorescences);

inflorescence bracts not swollen at base.

tepals 6, 1.8– 3.2 mm, dark brown to black; smooth;

stamens 3;

filaments 0.8–1.1 mm;

anthers 0.4–0.6 mm, yellow;

style 0.2–0.3 mm.

tepals 6, green or pale brown, 2.5–4 mm;

stamens 6;

filaments 0.4–0.9 mm;

anthers 0.3–0.6 mm;

styles 0.1– 0.15 mm.

elliptic to ovoid; shorter than or equaling the tepals, brown to dark brown, 1-chambered.

2.5–3.5 mm; shorter than or equaling the length of the tepals, green to light brown;

apex obtuse to acute, 3-chambered.

0.3–0.45 × 0.2– 0.3 mm, reticulate, apiculate.

0.4–0.5 × 0.2–0.25 mm.

=70, 80, 84.