Flora of North America species comparison

10-130 cm, erect, sometimes geniculate, glabrous, sometimes with a ring of glandular depressions below the nodes.

25-80 cm, erect, glabrous and shiny below the basal nodes.

sometimes with glandular pits, pilose near the apices and on the collars, hairs to 4 mm, papillose-based;

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate;

blades 5-25 cm long, 2-7(9) mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, occasionally pubescent near the base.

sparsely hairy at the apices, hairs to 6 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;

blades 6-30(52) cm long, 2-4.5 mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes with a few scattered hairs near the base.

(5)10-40 cm long, (2)4-18 cm wide, ovate, rachises angled and channeled;

primary branches 3-12(15) cm, solitary to whorled, appressed or diverging to 80° from the rachises;

secondary branches somewhat appressed;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 1-6(7) mm, almost appressed to narrowly divergent, stiff.

(25)30-60 cm long, 15—45 cm wide, broadly ovate to obovate, open, diffuse;

primary branches mostly 5-25(32) cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary;

pulvini hairy;

pedicels (4)10-35(50) mm, widely diverging, capillary, all the pedicels on each branch longer than the spikelets.

(4)5-10(11) mm long, 0.7-2.4 mm wide, ovate to linear-lanceolate, gray-green to purplish, with 5-11(15) florets;

disarticulation acropetal.

4-18 mm long, 1.4-3 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, grayish-green or stramineous to purplish, with (6)9-30 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, below the lemmas, paleas persistent.

subequal, 0.7-2(2.3) mm, ovate to lanceolate, membranous;

lemmas 1.2-2.4 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous or with a few hairs, gray-green, lateral veins evident, often greenish, apices acute;

paleas 1-2.2 mm, hyaline, keels scabrous, apices obtuse to truncate;

anthers 3, 0.2-0.5 mm, purplish.

narrowly lanceolate, membranous;

lower glumes 1.1-3.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.6-3.4 mm, apices acuminate;

lemmas 1.8-4.4 mm, lanceolate, membranous, lateral veins evident to inconspicuous, sometimes greenish, apices acute to acuminate;

paleas 1.1-3.5 mm, hyaline to membranous, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse;

anthers 2, 0.3-0.8 mm, purplish or brownish.

0.5-0.8(1) mm, ovoid to rectangular-prismatic, laterally compressed, shallowly to deeply grooved on the adaxial surface, striate, reddish-brown, distal 2/3 opaque.

0.6-0.8 mm, ovoid to ellipsoid, finely striate, reddish-brown.

= 60.

= unknown.