OregonFlora species comparison

often vertical, 1–6 mm thick.

sharply trigonous;

sides convex to concave proximally, deeply concave to flat distally, 10–200 cm × 1–6 mm.

proximally V-shaped, distally trigonous to asymmetrically laterally flattened in cross section;

distal blade (1)2–5 times as long as sheath, 50–750 × 2–9 mm.

proximal bract usually erect, resembling leaf blade but trigonous proximally; (1)3–20 cm.

1–5(10), sessile, 5–23 × 3–5(7) mm; floral scales bright (to very dark) orange-, red-brown, or purplish brown to straw-colored, often with prominent linear dots;

midrib mostly paler; ovate, 3.5–6 × 2–3 mm; smooth or awn sparsely spinulose;

margins deciduously ciliolate;

apex acute (to obtuse); notch (0.3)0.5–1 mm deep; awn mostly irregularly bent, 0.5–1.5(2.5) mm.

perianth members 4–8, sometimes fewer; bristle-like; equal or unequal; all equaling achene body to all rudimentary, retrorsely spinulose, brown;

stigmas 2–3.

biconvex to compressed bluntly trigonous; (2)2.5–3.5 × 1.3–2.3 mm;

beak 0.1–0.5 mm.

=74, 78.