OregonFlora species comparison

narrowly linear to filiform, proximally flat, 0.5–1.5 mm wide.

clusters 1 or 2–3 (then widely spaced), narrowly turbinate to hemispheric, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, subtending leafy bracts often exceeded by distal cluster.

ellipsoid, 3.5–5.5 mm, pale brown to nearly white;

apex acute, fertile scales elliptic, 3–3.5(4) mm;

apex acute or acuminate;

midrib excurrent as mucro.

perianth bristles 10–12, slightly overtopping tubercle.

1(2) per spike; (2.3)2.5–3 mm;

body 1.5–1.8(2) × 0.9–1.2 mm, pale brown with paler center;

surfaces transversely striate, relatively smooth; rim narrow, confluent with tubercle base; tubercle 0.5–1.2 mm.