Flora of North America species comparison

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

15-40(50) cm, erect, stiff, hard.

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 at the apices, hairs to 2 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.4 mm, membranous, ciliate;

blades 2-15 cm long, (1)2-4 mm wide, involute, arcuate, glabrous abaxially, scabrous adaxially, apices sharply pointed.

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.

terminal, 6-20(24) cm long, 2-8(12) cm wide, ovate, open or contracted;

primary branches 1-8(15) cm, appressed or diverging up to 50° from the rachises;

pulvini glabrous or not;

pedicels 0-8 mm, appressed, lower pedicels on each branch shorter than 1 mm.

(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.

8-14 mm long, 1.4-3 mm wide, ovate to lanceolate, stramineous with a reddish-purple tinge, with 5-10 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.

unequal, chartaceous;

lower glumes 2.4-3.6 mm;

upper glumes 3-4.5 mm, sometimes 3-veined;

lemmas 3.8-4.5 mm, ovate, leathery, 3(4, 5)-veined, lateral veins evident, greenish, upper margins hyaline, apices acute to obtuse, usually erose;

paleas 3.8-4.5 mm, membranous, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse to truncate;

anthers 3, 2-2.4 mm, purplish to yellowish.

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

1.6-2 mm, ellipsoid, dorsally flattened, with a shallow adaxial groove, striate, reddish-brown.

= 40.

= 40.