Flora of North America species comparison

5–6 mm diam., nodes not swollen.

densely branching.

erect, terete, 3 mm diam., smooth.

1–20.

1, straw-colored, apex acute.

1–3.

basal 1, cauline 2;

auricles 0.5 mm, apex rounded, cartilaginous;

blade 7–45 cm x 1–2 mm, terete, not scabrous.

basal, 2–3;

auricles yellowish, 0.2–0.4 mm, leathery;

blade flat, 5–30 cm × 0.5–1 mm, margins entire, turned up, occasionally involute.

terminal panicles of 70–120 heads, 6–10 cm, branches ascending;

primary bract erect;

heads 3–5(–8)-flowered, obconic, 2–4 mm diam.

compact and few flowered to loose and lax with to 80 flowers, 1.5–5(–9) cm;

primary bract usually exceeding inflorescence.

tepals dark reddish brown, lanceolate, apex acuminate to subulate tipte;

outer tepals 1.9–2.2 mm;

inner tepals 2–2.3 mm;

stamens 6, anthers 2 times filament length.

bracteoles 2;

tepals greenish, lanceolate, 4–5 mm;

inner series nearly equal, spreading in fruit, nearly equal to or exceeding capsule;

stamens 6, filaments 0.8–1.2 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm;

style 0.2 mm.

inserted with beak exserted, straw-colored, 1-locular, narrowly ovoid, 2.3–2.4 mm, tapering to subulate tip, valves separating at dehiscence.

tan, 1-locular to pseudo-3-locular, ellipsoid, 2.9–3.6 × 1.5–1.9 mm.

narrowly ovoid, 0.5–0.6 mm, not tailed;

body clear yellow-brown.

tan to amber, ellipsoid to lunate, 0.4–0.67 mm, not tailed.

= ca. 84.