Flora of North America species comparison

(5)10-60 cm, erect or decumbent, much-branched near the base, with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes, rings often shiny or yellowish.

30-90 cm, erect or decumbent, glabrous below the nodes.

hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate;

blades 1.5-10 cm long, 1-3(5) mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, occasionally with white hairs to 3 mm, margins without crateriform glands.

hairy at the apices and on the collars, sometimes also on the distal portion of the margins, hairs to 5 mm;

ligules 0.4-0.5 mm;

blades 5-30 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, usually involute, sometimes flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous or sparsely pilose, hairs to 5 mm, adaxial surfaces scabridulous.

4-20 cm long, 2.2-8(10) cm wide, ovate, open to contracted, rachises with shiny or yellowish glandular spots or rings below the nodes;

primary branches 0.5-6 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 1-4 mm, stout, stiff, divergent, without glandular bands.

20-65 cm long, 10-35 cm wide, ovate, open;

primary branches 2-20(24) cm, widely spaced, diverging 20-100° from the rachises, not rebranched, naked basally;

pulvini hairy;

pedicels 0-12 mm, appressed, proximal spikelets on each branch sessile or subsessile, the pedicels shorter than 0.4 mm.

4-7(11) mm long, 1.1-2.2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, reddish-purple to greenish, occasionally grayish, with 7-12(20) florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

5-13 mm long, 1.4-3 mm wide, oblong to oblanceolate, stramineous to reddish-purple, with 3-12 florets;

disarticulation tardy, basipetal, in the rachilla below the florets, glumes persistent.

broadly ovate, membranous, 1-veined;

lower glumes 0.9-1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-1.6 mm;

lemmas 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, apices acute to obtuse;

paleas 1.3-1.7 mm, hyaline, keels scabrous, scabridities to 0.1 mm, apices obtuse to acute;

anthers 3, 0.1-0.2 mm, reddish-brown.

lanceolate, broad basally, indurate;

lower glumes 2.5-6 mm;

upper glumes 3-6 mm, apices acuminate;

lemmas 3-5 mm, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, indurate, apices acuminate;

paleas 2.4-4.6 mm, indurate, gibbous basally but the sides not projecting beyond the lemmas, keels ciliolate, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.3-0.5 mm, reddish-brown.

0.4-0.7 mm, ellipsoid, not grooved, smooth to faintly striate, light brown.

0.9-1.5 mm, ovoid to pyriform, laterally flattened, tapering distally, smooth to faintly striate, brownish.

= 40.

= 40.