Flora of North America species comparison

brown at base.

basal sheaths fibrous;

sheath fronts membranous;

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

racemose or, rarely, branched proximally, with (1–)2–13 spikes;

bracts leaflike, sheathless;

lateral spikes androgynous, short-pedunculate or subsessile, cladoprophyllate;

terminal spike androgynous.

ascending, veined, with 2 strong marginal veins, somewhat stipitate, broadly elliptic to obovate, trigonous in cross section, less than 10 mm, base tapering, apex tapering or abruptly beaked, stellate pubescent;

beak 0.6–1.5 mm, emarginate, oblique, bidentate, with teeth 0.3–0.7 mm mm.

trigonous, smaller than bodies of perigynia;

style deciduous, thickened at base.

pistillate scales with apex acuminate or awned.

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