Flora of North America species comparison

30-120 (160) cm, erect, glabrous and non-glandular below the nodes.

(2)6-25 cm, usually erect, sometimes decumbent, glabrous, with elliptical, yellowish, glandular pits below the nodes.

sometimes villous along the margins, apices hairy, hairs to 5 mm;

ligules 0.3-0.5 mm;

blades 15-46(65) cm long, 1.5-8 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces glabrous, adaxial surfaces scabridulous, sometimes also pilose on the basal 1/4, hairs to 4 mm.

with elliptical glandular pits, sparsely hairy at the throat, hairs to 2 mm;

ligules 0.2-0.5 mm, ciliate;

blades 2-12 cm long, 1-3 mm wide, flat to involute, abaxial surfaces scabridulous, bases with glandular pits.

30-80 cm long, 6-30 cm wide, oblong to ovoid, diffuse;

primary branches 2-35 cm, diverging 20-90° from the rachises, naked basally;

pulvini hairy or glabrous;

pedicels 2-22 cm, diverging, capillary.

terminal, 4-10(15) cm long, 0.5-2 cm wide, narrowly elliptic, contracted, dense;

primary branches alternate, usually appressed, occasionally diverging to 30° from the rachises, rachises and branches with glandular pits;

pulvini glabrous;

pedicels 1.4-10 mm, appressed or divergent.

3-15 mm long, 1.5—3.6 mm wide, ovate to lanceolate, greenish-yellow with a reddish-purple tinge, with (2)4-18 florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

3.6-7.5 mm long, 1.2-2 mm wide, narrowly ovate, light yellowish, occasionally mottled with reddish-purple, with 6-11(14) florets;

disarticulation acropetal, paleas persistent.

subequal, 1.8-4 mm, narrowly ovate to linear-lanceolate, membranous, apices acuminate;

upper glumes as long as or longer than the basal lemmas;

lemmas 2.2-3.5 mm, broadly ovate to lanceolate, membranous, strongly keeled, keels not glandular, lateral veins conspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.8-2.8 mm, hyaline, narrower than the lemmas, keels ciliolate, apices obtuse to truncate;

anthers 3, 1-1.6 mm, purplish.

subequal, ovate to lanceolate, hyaline;

lower glumes (0.7)0.9-1.4 mm;

upper glumes 1.2-1.8 mm;

lemmas 1.5-2.2 mm, ovate, subhyaline, stramineous, veins greenish and conspicuous, apices acute;

paleas 1.2-2 mm, hyaline, keels scabridulous, apices obtuse;

anthers 3, 0.2-0.3 mm, purplish.

0.8-1.3 mm, rectangular-prismatic, somewhat laterally compressed, with a wide, deep adaxial groove, faintly striate, opaque, dark reddish-brown.

0.5-0.8 mm, pyriform except slightly flattened adaxially, smooth, light brown.

= 40.

= unknown.