Flora of North America species comparison

30-75 cm, erect, glabrous below.

35-70 cm, erect, with glandular bands below the nodes.

mostly glabrous, hairy at the apices, hairs to 4 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.3 mm;

blades 10-25(40) cm long, 1-5 mm wide, involute, glabrous abaxially, scabridulous adaxially, sometimes also sparsely pilose.

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

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm;

blades (8)10-25(30) cm long, 1.5-4 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes also sparsely hairy, hairs to 4 mm.

(3)5-30 cm long, 1-15 cm wide, from narrowly oblong, glomerate, and interrupted below to ovate and open;

primary branches 0.5-12(16) cm, appressed or diverging up to 40° from the rachises, stiff;

pulvini glabrous or sparsely hairy;

pedicels 0-1(3) mm, appressed, flattened.

12-30 cm long, 5-16 cm wide, ovate, open, an oblique glandular ring present below the lowest rachis node;

primary branches 2-10 cm, diverging 10-70° from the rachises, flexible;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 1.5-14 mm, divergent, with a glandular band.

6-16(23) cm long, 2.4-5 mm wide, ovate to linear-elliptic, flattened, stramineous, with reddish-purple margins or completely reddish-purple, with 10-45 florets;

disarticulation basipetal, florets falling intact and before the glumes.

5-16 mm long, 1.2-2.3 mm wide, linear-lanceolate, plumbeous to dark reddish-purple, with 5-25 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

ovate-lanceolate to lanceolate, membranous;

lower glumes 1.7-3 mm;

upper glumes 2.2-4 mm, apices acuminate;

lemmas 2-6 mm, ovate, membranous to leathery, apices usually acuminate or attenuate, sometimes acute;

paleas 1.5-3 mm, membranous to leathery, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse, sometimes bifid;

anthers 2, 0.2-0.5 mm, brownish.

ovate, membranous to hyaline;

lower glumes 1.1-1.5 mm;

upper glumes 1.4-2 mm;

lemmas 1.5-2.5 mm, ovate, membranous, strongly keeled, keels without glands, lateral veins conspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.2-2.1 mm, hyaline, narrower than the lemmas, apices obtuse to truncate;

anthers 3, 0.3-0.5 mm, purplish.

0.8-1.3 mm, ellipsoid, somewhat laterally flattened, smooth, reddish-brown.

0.8-1.1 mm, rectangular-prismatic to ellipsoid, somewhat laterally compressed, with a well-developed adaxial groove, smooth, faintly striate, mostly opaque, light reddish-brown.

= 40.

= 84.