Flora of North America species comparison

brown at base.

basal sheaths somewhat fibrous;

sheath fronts membranous;

blades V-shaped in cross section when young, glabrous.

racemose, with 6–15 spikes;

proximal bracts leaflike, sheathless, longest bract 5–20(–25) cm, at least (3–)5 times as long as inflorescence, lateral spikes gynecandrous, sessile, without prophylls;

terminal spike gynecandrous.

ascending, linear, flat, faintly veined on both faces, substipitate, base tapering, margins narrowly winged to (0.1–)0.2 mm wide, apex tapering to beak, glabrous;

beak with inconspicuous abaxial suture, apex bidentate.

biconvex, smaller than bodies of perigynia;

style deciduous, base persistent, not conspicuously enlarged.

pistillate scales with apex acuminate to awned.

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