Flora of North America species comparison

30-62 cm, erect, glabrous and shiny below the nodes.

(45)60-150 cm, erect, glabrous or glandular.

sometimes densely pilose dorsally and on the collars, margins and apices hairy, hairs to 5 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.4 mm;

blades 5-20(33) cm long, 1-3.5 mm wide, involute to flat, both surfaces with scattered hairs, adaxial surfaces densely hairy behind the ligules, hairs to 7 mm.

with scattered hairs, hairs to 9 mm;

ligules 0.6-1.3 mm;

blades 12-50(65) cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, adaxial surfaces with scattered hairs basally, hairs to 7 mm.

15-25 cm long, 5-27 cm wide, ovate, open;

primary branches 0.6-15 cm, diverging up to 90° from the rachises, capillary, naked basally;

pulvini hairy, hairs to 8 mm;

pedicels 1.4-10(16) mm, divergent.

16-35(40) cm long, (4)8-24 cm wide, ovate to oblong, open;

primary branches 3-14 cm, diverging 10-80° from the rachises;

pulvini glabrous or not;

pedicels 0.5-5 mm, appressed, flexible.

(2.5)3-5 mm long, 1.1-1.6 mm wide, narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, plumbeous, with 4-9 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

4-8.2(10) mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous to yellowish, with 3-10 florets;

disarticulation irregular to acropetal, proximal rachilla segments persistent.

broadly ovate to narrowly lanceolate, hyaline to membranous;

lower glumes 1.1-1.6 mm;

upper glumes 1.2—1.8 mm;

lemmas 1.2-1.8 mm, broadly ovate, membranous throughout, lateral veins inconspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.1-1.7 mm, membranous to hyaline, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.3—0.5 mm, reddish-purple.

lanceolate, hyaline;

lower glumes 1.2-2.6 mm;

upper glumes 2-3 mm;

lemmas 1.8-3 mm, ovate, membranous, lateral veins conspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.8-3 mm, hyaline to membranous, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.6-1.2 mm, reddish-brown.

0.5-0.8 mm, obovoid to somewhat prism-shaped, laterally compressed, with a well-developed adaxial groove, finely striate, opaque to translucent, reddish-brown.

1-1.7 mm, ellipsoid to obovoid, dorsally compressed, adaxial surfaces with a shallow, broad groove or ungrooved, smooth, mostly translucent, light brown, bases often greenish.

= 60, 80.

= 40, 50.