OregonFlora species comparison

with bases somewhat compressed-keeled;

internodes glabrous; shiny below the nodes.

blades 2–7(11) cm × 1–2.8(4)mm; flat, occasionally conduplicate;

lower surface smooth or minutely scabrous;

upper surface minutely scabrous;

margins and midveins not conspicuously thickened; greenish;

tips acute.

6–21 × 4–16 cm, broadly ovoid; open;

branches whitish;

primary branches 3–12 cm × 0.05–0.1 mm; capillary; lower branches spreading, not appearing clustered;

pedicels 3–14 mm; longer than the spikelets.

1.2–2.1 mm.

equal, 0.6–1.7 mm, 1-veined; purplish, minutely scabrous particularly on the veins;

tips acute.

1.2–2.1 mm, lanceolate to oblong-elliptic; somewhat gray, glabrous; smooth, occasionally minutely scabrous near the tips;

tips acute; awnless or mucronate; the mucros to 0.3 mm.

1–1.3 mm; greenish yellow to purplish at maturity.

=20, 22, 28.