Flora of North America species comparison

phyllopodic, with dead leaf remains at base, 5–35 cm.

4–16 cm, scabrous distally;

bases (remnants of old leaves) fibrous.

blades 1–2.5 mm wide, margins sometimes involute, scabrid at tip.

blades pale to bright green, equaling or exceeding stems, 0.5–4.3 mm wide, herbaceous or coriaceous, glabrous abaxially, strongly scabrous to papillose adaxially.

proximal bracts 0.5-2 cm, much shorter than inflorescences;

lateral spikes 6–15 × 3.5–5 mm, with 2–10 perigynia;

terminal spikes 6–20 × 1–2.5 mm.

with both staminate and pistillate scales;

peduncles of basal pistillate spikes erect, short to elongate, stout to slender;

peduncles of staminate spikes 0.8–15 mm;

proximal nonbasal bracts scalelike, shorter than inflorescences.

proximal pistillate spikes 2–3 (basal spikes 1–2);

cauline spikes usually overlapping with staminate spikes, with 3–10(–15) perigynia; staminate spikes 4.5–11.3 × 1.1–3 mm.

2.5–4.5 × 1.6–2 mm, apex rounded;

beak absent.

green to pale brown, veinless, ellipsoid, obtusely trigonous in cross section, 3.1–4.7 × 1.1–1.6 mm;

beak straight, pale green, occasionally with reddish brown tinge near apex, strongly 2-edged, 0.9–2 mm, smooth or ciliate-serrulate, apical teeth 0.2–0.5 mm.

brown, ellipsoid to obovoid, obtusely trigonous in cross section, 1.6–2 × 1.2–1.6 mm.

scales circular-ovate, 3–4.8 × 2.2–3.4 mm, long as and wider than perigynia, apex obtuse, sometimes mucronate.

scales oblanceolate to obovate, 3.2–4.8 × 1.5–2 mm, apex acute to obtuse.

2–2.5 mm.

1.6–2.9 mm.

pistillate scales pale brown to reddish brown, with narrow white margins, ovate, 2.9–4.1 × 1.5–1.9 mm, equaling or exceeding perigynia, apex acute to long-acuminate; staminate scales ovate, 4.2–5.4 × 1.2–2.1 mm, apex obtuse or acute to acuminate.

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= 52.