OregonFlora species comparison

thin and wiry;

blade flat and slightly inrolled;

auricles soft and thin distally, 0.3–3 mm; dull, rounded or acute; dirty white.

0.1–0.2 mm thick;

basal.

cymes, 2–20 cm, usually open;

bractlets subtending flowers acute to acuminate, often aristate.

1 terminal flower, 1–2 bractlets subtending flowers, bases not sheathing stem;

tips acute to blunt.

tepals 6, 3.3–5.1 mm; greenish to pale brown, nearly concolorous;

tips acuminate;

outer tepals distinctly longer than inner tepals;

stamens 6;

filaments 0.5–0.8 mm;

anthers (0.6)0.8–1.7 mm;

styles 0.3–1 mm.

tepals usually 6, brown to dark brown; shiny, incurving, usually 3(2–4) stamens;

filaments 0.4–0.6 mm;

anthers 0.15–0.25 mm;

styles 0–0.1 mm.

2.8–4.1 mm; shorter than the tepals, pale brown to dark brown;

apex truncate to notched (acute), crested, 3-chambered.

red to purple, usually shorter than the tepals.

0.4–0.6 × 0.2–0.3 mm, apiculate, reticulate.

0.3–0.5 × 0.2–0.3 mm, not striate (at 10×).