Flora of North America species comparison

8-45(70) cm, erect or geniculate, glabrous, occasionally with a few glandular depressions.

5-40 cm, erect, glabrous, occasionally with oblong glandular areas below the nodes.

mostly glabrous, occasionally glandular, apices hirsute, hairs to 3 mm;

ligules 0.1-0.3 mm, ciliate;

blades 2-15(20) cm long, 1-2.5(4) mm wide, flat, abaxial surfaces glabrous, occasionally with glandular pits along the midrib, adaxial surfaces scabridulous.

hairy on the distal margins and at the apices, hairs to 4 mm, stiff;

ligules 0.2-0.3 mm;

blades 2-8 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces smooth, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, bases occasionally with papillose-based hairs.

4-20(28) cm long, 2-15(18) cm wide, ellipsoid to ovoid, diffuse;

primary branches 1-10 cm, diverging 10-80°(110°) from the rachises, capillary, whorled on the lowest 2 nodes, rarely glandular;

pulvini glabrous or hairy;

pedicels 1-10 mm, flexible, appressed or divergent.

4-15 cm long, 1-7 cm wide, cylindrical to narrowly ovate, open, rachises sometimes glandular below the nodes;

primary branches 0.5-4 cm, diverging 20-100° from the rachises;

pulvini sparsely pilose;

pedicels 1-4(7) mm, as long as or longer than the spikelets, mostly pendent, lax, terete.

(2)3.5-6(10) mm long, 0.6-1.4 mm wide, linear-oblong to narrowly ovate, plumbeous, with (3)5-17 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas tardily deciduous, rachillas persisting longer than the paleas.

(1)1.5-2.5 mm long, 0.9-1.4 mm wide, ovate to oblong, reddish-purple to greenish, with 4-8 florets;

disarticulation basipetal, glumes persistent.

narrowly ovate to lanceolate, hyaline;

lower glumes 0.3-0.6(0.8) mm;

upper glumes 0.7-1.2(1.4) mm;

lemmas 1.2-1.8(2) mm, ovate-lanceolate, membranous to hyaline, grayish-green proximally, reddish-purple distally, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1-1.6 mm, membranous to hyaline, keels scabridulous to scabrous, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish.

ovate, hyaline, keeled, veins commonly green;

lower glumes 0.4-0.7 mm;

upper glumes 0.7-1 mm;

lemmas 0.7-1.1 mm, ovate to broadly oblong, membranous, lateral veins usually greenish, apices truncate to obtuse;

paleas 0.6-1.1 mm, hyaline, keels ciliate, cilia 0.3-0.5 mm, apices obtuse to truncate;

anthers 3, about 0.2 mm, purplish.

0.5-1 mm, obovoid to prism-shaped, adaxial surfaces flat, smooth to faintly striate, light brown.

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

= 40.

= 20.