Flora of North America species comparison

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

12-60 cm, erect, glabrous or hairy near the base, often shiny below the 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.

glabrous, summits shortly pilose, hairs to 0.5 mm;

ligules 0.3-0.5 mm, ciliate;

blades 3-11 cm long, 0.7-2 mm wide, involute or flat, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially.

(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.

6-11 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, narrowly ovate, loosely contracted;

primary branches 1-3 cm, compact, appressed or diverging to 30° from the rachises, sometimes naked near the base;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 0.2-3 mm, diverging, scabridulous.

(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.

3-6(15) mm long, 1.3-2 mm wide, linear lanceolate, stramineous, with 9-30 florets;

disarticulation irregular or basipetal, 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.

subequal, 1-1.3 mm, ovate, membranous, apices obtuse to acute;

lemmas 1.4-1.6 mm, ovate, membranous, glabrous, lateral veins conspicuous, green, sometimes obscure towards the apices, apices obtuse;

paleas 1.4-1.6 mm, hyaline, apices truncate, ciliolate;

anthers 3, 0.5-0.8 mm, yellowish.

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.

0.4-0.5 mm, oblong-ellipsoid, strongly dorsally compressed, usually with a shallow dorsal groove, smooth to finely striate, mostly light brown, bases often greenish.

= 60.

= unknown.