Flora of North America species comparison

internodes 4-angled, apical internode shorter than adjacent one or almost absent.

internodes 6-lined at first, soon 4-lined, then terete.

spreading, sessile;

blade (concolor), broadly to narrowly oblong or elliptic to oblanceolate or round, 5–15 × 2–5 mm, papery to membranous, margins plane, apex rounded, basal veins 3–5, midrib branched or not.

blades narrowly oblong-elliptic or oblanceolate to linear, 15–32(–37) × 1–7 mm, base articulated, attenuate, margins recurved to revolute, apex rounded to acute, midrib obscurely branched.

cylindric to rounded-pyramidal, 1–13-flowered, branching mostly dichasial;

bracts not linear-subulate.

narrowly cylindric, 3–15-flowered from apical node, with (1–)3–5-flowered dichasia from 3–4 proximal nodes, sometimes with additional flowering branches.

3–5 mm diam.;

sepals usually lanceolate to narrowly oblong, rarely oblanceolate, equal, 2.5 × 0.8–1 mm, margins sometimes ciliate, not setulose-ciliate, apex rounded;

petals pale yellow, oblong, 1.7–3.5 mm;

stamens 5–16, scarcely grouped;

styles 0.5 mm;

stigmas broadly capitate.

9–14 mm diam.;

sepals deciduous, not enclosing capsule, 5, oblanceolate-spatulate to linear, subequal or equal, 3.5–6.5 × 0.5–1.5 mm;

petals 5, bright yellow, obovate-oblanceolate, 5–9 mm;

stamens deciduous, 60–120;

ovary 3-merous, placentation parietal.

narrowly ovoid to cylindric-ellipsoid, 4–5 × 2–2.5 mm, usually broadest at or near middle.

narrowly ovoid-conic, 4.5–6 × 2.5–3.5 mm.

0.4–0.7 mm;

testa finely linear-scalariform.

narrowly carinate, 0.7–0.8 mm;

testa finely reticulate.

= 16 [“18”].

= 18.