Flora of North America species comparison

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

to 100 cm × 2 mm, scabrous.

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

sheath fronts spotted red-brown or pale brown, apex short-convex, membranous or slightly thickened, rugose;

ligule retuse, to 0.5 mm, free limb to 0.1 mm;

blades 70 cm × 5 mm, tip not reaching inflorescence.

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.

spicate, 2.5–6 × 1.5 cm, with 10–15 branches, proximal scarcely separate; the proximal internode to 10 mm;

proximal bracts setaceous, not conspicuous, distal bracts scalelike.

2.5–4.5 × 1.6–2 mm, apex rounded;

beak absent.

yellow-brown, red dotted, 3–5-veined abaxially, body broadly ovate, 2.5–5 × 2.5–3 mm, base rounded;

beak 0.8–1.2 mm.

red-brown, elliptic, 1.4–1.6 × 1.2 mm, dull.

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.

hyaline, brown, awn to 2 mm, usually shorter than scale body.

= 52.