Flora of North America species comparison

2–4 mm diam., not swollen.

1–8, 0.3–0.5 mm diam.

erect, terete, 1–3 mm diam., smooth.

1–2.

0–1, straw-colored or maroon, apex acute.

basal, 2–4;

auricles slightly prolonged, rounded, scarious to ± leathery;

blade deeply channeled, 2–10 cm, mostly shorter than culms.

basal 0–2, cauline 1–2(–5);

auricles 0.5–1.2 mm, apex rounded, scarious;

blade green to straw-colored, terete, 1.5–12 cm × 0.5–1.1 mm.

solitary heads, each with 2–3(–50) flowers;

primary bracts brownish, nearly equal to or slightly shorter thanabout equaling inflorescence.

terminal panicles of 5–25 heads, 3–11 cm, branches erect to ascending;

primary bract erect;

heads 2–10-flowered, obpyramidal, usually with some flowers short- pedicellateled, 2–6 mm in diam.

tepals pale brown or darker, oblong-lanceolate, 3–5 mm, outer and inner series nearly equal;

stamens 6, filaments 2.5–4 mm, anthers 0.6–1 mm;

styles 0.5–0.8 mm.

tepals greenish to straw-colored, lanceolate to oblong;

outer tepals 1.8–3 mm, apex obtuse, mucronate;

inner tepals 1.6–2.7 mm, apex obtuse;

stamens 6, anthers 1/2 filament length.

tan, pseudo-3-locular, 3-gonous–cylindric, apex obtuse, mucronate.

equaling perianth to usually exserted, chestnut brown to straw-colored, imperfectly 3-locular, oblong to oblong-ovoid, 2.3–3.5 mm, apex obtuse, valves separating at dehiscence.

tan or darker, fusiform, body 0.5–1 mm, tails 0.6–1 mm.

oblong to ovoid, 0.5–0.7 mm, not tailed.

= 40.