Flora of North America species comparison

brown at base.

basal sheaths fibrous;

sheath fronts membranous, proximal prominently veined and becoming ladder-fibrillose, not septate-noduloae;

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

racemose, with 6–11 spikes;

proximal bracts leaflike, short-sheathing, shorter or longer than diameter of stem;

proximal lateral spikes pistillate, pedunculate, prophyllate;

distal lateral 2–4 spikes staminate;

terminal spike staminate.

ascending or spreading, yellow-brown to dark brown, obscurely veined on faces, sessile, broadly obovate, rounded-trigonous, base rounded, apex rounded, beaked, glabrous or hispidulous;

beak flared, abaxially obliquely cut, to 5 mm, emarginate.

trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;

style persistent.

cespitose, stout-rhizomatous.

pistillate scales with apex acute to awned.

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