Flora of North America species comparison

10-45 cm, erect to decumbent, sometimes with a ring of glandular tissue below the nodes.

(30)45-100 cm, erect, glabrous below the nodes.

sometimes glandular on the midveins, hairy at the apices, hairs

rarely glabrous, apices and distal margins usually hairy, sometimes also densely hairy basally, dorsally, and on the collars, hairs to 6 mm, papillose-based;

ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;

blades 25-60 cm long, 3-8(11) mm wide, flat to loosely involute, usually glabrous, adaxial surfaces sometimes hairy basally.

4-20 cm long, 2.2-8(10) cm wide, ovate, open to contracted, rachises sometimes with glandular spots or pits below the nodes, rarely with a glandular ring, glands usually dull, greenish-gray to stramineous;

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

pulvini glabrous or hairy;

pedicels 1-4 mm, stiff, straight, divergent, usually with a distal ring of crateriform glands.

25-85 cm long, 15-40 cm wide, broadly ovate, open;

primary branches mostly 4-35(45) cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, capillary;

pulvini glabrous or hairy;

pedicels 2-28 mm, divergent.

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

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

2-4(5) mm long, 1-1.7 mm wide, lanceolate, greenish with purplish tinges, with 2-6 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

broadly ovate, membranous;

lower glumes 0.9-1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-1.6 mm;

lemmas 1.4-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous, keels occasionally with 1-2 crateriform glands, apices acute to obtuse;

paleas 1.3-1.7 mm, hyaline, keels smooth or scabridulous, scabridities to 0.1 mm, apices obtuse to acute;

anthers 2, 0.2-0.3 mm, reddish-brown.

lanceolate, hyaline to membranous;

lower glumes 1.1-2 mm;

upper glumes 1.5-2.8 mm, apices acuminate to acute;

lemmas 1.6-2.4 mm, ovate, membranous, hyaline near the margins, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.2-2.2 mm, hyaline, bases not projecting beyond the lemmas, apices acute to obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.3-0.8 mm, purplish.

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

0.8-1 mm, rectangular-prismatic, somewhat laterally compressed, with or without a well-developed adaxial groove, striate, opaque, reddish-brown.

= 40.

= 100.