Bulbostylis ciliatifolia
capillary hairsedge, Elliott's hairsedge
to 40 cm, wiry.
¼–1/2 length of culms;
sheaths stramineous to tan or brown, glabrous or scabrid on ribs;
blades spreading to ascending, filiform, 0.5 mm wide, involute, margin glabrous or scabrid, abaxially glabrous or hirtellous.
terminal, in simple or compound anthelae;
scapes wiry, coarsely ribbed, glabrous or strumose-puberulent;
longer primary involucral bracts with setaceous blades exceeding or exceeded by inflorescence.
red-brown to dark brown, lanceoloid to cylindric, longer than wide, 2–6 mm;
fertile scales broadly ovate, keeled, 1–1.3 mm, apex acute, abaxially puberulent, midrib included or excurrent as mucro.
stamens 2–3;
anthers narrowly oblong, 0.8–1 mm.
mostly waxy gray, trigonous, obovoid, 0.8–1.5 mm, faces evenly papillate, finely rugulose or level;
tubercle a small, dark, compressed-conic button.
Bulbostylis ciliatifolia
Varieties 2 (2 in the flora).
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
1. Plants annual, 10–20(–30) cm; scapes mostly 0.5 mm diam.; anthelae mostly simple, open; longest involucral bract shorter than inflorescence; fertile scales dark red-brown or dull brown. | var. ciliatifolia |
1. Plants perennial, 15–40 cm; scapes mostly 0.5–0.7 mm diam.; anthelae mostly compound, open or dense; proximalmost involucral bract longer than inflorescence; spikelets red brown or pale brown. | var. coarctata |
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