Flora of North America species comparison

20–60 cm, scabrous distally;

bases (remnants of old leaves) slightly or not fibrous.

blades green, 1.8–5 mm wide, widest leaves 3+ mm wide, herbaceous, papillose to scabrous abaxially, papillose to scabrous adaxially.

usually with both staminate and pistillate spikes, rarely only pistillate;

peduncle of staminate spike 0.7–9.7 mm;

proximal nonbasal bracts leaflike, usually shorter than inflorescences.

proximal pistillate spikes 2–3 (basal spike 0);

cauline spikes usually clearly separated, with 3–10 perigynia;

staminate spikes 3.1–15.5 × 1–2.5 mm.

2.8–3.8 × 1.2–2.6 mm;

beak 0.5–2.3 mm, apical teeth 0.1–0.3 mm.

pale green, veinless, globose to obovoid, 2.7–3.8 × 1.2–2.6 mm, as long as wide;

beak usually straight, occasionally slightly bent, pale green, 0.5–2.3 mm, weakly ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.1–0.5 mm.

pale brown, globose to obovoid, round to obtusely trigonous in cross section, 1.4–2.3 × 1–1.4 mm.

scales 2.5–4.1 × 1.2–1.6(–2) mm, apex usually acuminate, sometimes awned, equaling or shorter than perigynia.

pistillate scales pale brown to dark reddish brown, often with broad white margins, ovate to lanceolate, 2.5–4.8 × 1.2–2 mm, shorter than to exceeding perigynia, apex obtuse to acuminate or short-awned;

staminate scales elliptic to obovate, 3.1–5.2 × 0.7–2.2 mm, apex obtuse to acuminate or short-aristate.

1.8–3 mm.

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= 28.