Flora of North America species comparison

decumbent and rooting at the lower nodes, erect portion (2)5-12(20) cm, often branched, glabrous or hairy on the lower internodes.

50-90(120) cm, glabrous below the nodes.

pilose on the margins, collars, and at the apices, hairs 0.1-0.6 mm;

ligules 0.3-0.6 mm;

blades 0.5-2.5 cm long, 1-2 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces appressed pubescent, hairs about 0.2 mm.

villous and the hairs not papillose-based, or mostly glabrous, apices hairy, hairs to 5 mm, not papillose-based;

ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;

blades (14)20-35 cm long, 1-2.4 mm wide, involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes sparsely hairy.

terminal and axillary, 1-3.5 cm long, 0.7-2.5 cm wide, ovate, open to somewhat congested;

primary branches 0.1-0.5 cm, appressed to strongly divergent, glabrous;

pulvini sparsely pilose or glabrous;

pedicels 0.2-1 mm, ciliate.

12-40 cm long, 4-20 cm wide, oblong, open;

primary branches 2-20 cm, diverging 20-70° from the rachises, capillary;

pulvini glabrous or sparsely hairy;

pedicels (0.4)1-4(14) mm, appressed or diverging, only the terminal pedicels on each branch longer than 4 mm.

4-13 mm long, 1-1.5 mm wide, linear-oblong, often arcuate, loosely imbricate, greenish-yellow to purplish, with 12-35 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

4-6(7.3) mm long, 1-2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous, with 5-12 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, hyaline;

lower glumes 0.4-0.7 mm;

upper glumes 0.8-1.2 mm;

lemmas 1.4-2 mm, ovate, strongly 3-veined, veins greenish, apices acuminate;

paleas 0.7-1.2 mm, hyaline, keels scabridulous, apices acute to obtuse;

anthers 2, 0.2-0.3 mm, brownish.

lanceolate to ovate, hyaline;

lower glumes 1.1-1.8 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-2.2 mm, exceeded by the basal lemmas;

lemmas 2-2.6 mm, ovate, membranous, hyaline towards the apices and margins, keels weak or strong, without glands, lateral veins from inconspicuous to conspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.7-2.4 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, apices truncate, often notched;

anthers 3, 0.6-1.3 mm, yellowish to purplish.

0.3-0.5 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat translucent, light brown.

0.6-0.8 mm, rectangular-prismatic to subellipsoid, laterally compressed, with a well-developed adaxial groove, faintly striate, opaque, reddish-brown.

= 20.

= 40.