OregonFlora species comparison

terete; to 100 cm; nodal glands absent.

submersed, conspicuously 2-ranked, sessile; more or less sti?;

blades attached to lower 25% of petiole;

stipules ligulate, 0.5– 2 cm, fibrous, shredding at tip;

tip obtuse;

blades linear to lanceolate, 20–70(120) × 3–4(8) mm;

base rounded, with basal lobes (auricles);

margins minutely spinulose to serrulate;

tip acute; lacunae absent;

veins 20–60.

often branched;

peduncles axillary; erect, 30–50(70)mm;

spikes moniliform, 7–20 mm.

stipitate, obliquely obovoid; turgid, 3–4(5) × 2(3.3)mm, brown, dorsally and laterally keeled;

beaks erect, recurved at tip, 0.7–0.9 mm.