Flora of North America species comparison

1–8, 0.3–0.5 mm diam.

erect, terete, 1–3 mm diam., smooth.

1–2.

0–1, straw-colored to pink, apex acute.

basal, 2–4;

auricles slightly prolonged, rounded, scarious to ± leathery;

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

basal 1–3, cauline 1–2;

auricles 0.5–3 mm, apex rounded to truncate, scarious;

blade terete, 1.5–25 cm × 0.5–2.5 mm.

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

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

terminal panicles or racemes of 2–35 heads, 1–12 cm, branches erect;

primary bract erect;

heads 2–8-flowered, ellipsoid to narrowly obconic, 2–9 mm 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 green to light brown, lanceolate;

outer tepals 2.3–3.1 mm, apex acuminate to rarely obtuse;

inner tepals 2.5–3.2 mm, apex acuminate;

stamens 3 (or 6), anthers 1/4–1/2 filament length.

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

exserted, chestnut brown, imperfectly 3-locular, narrowly ellipsoid to prismatic, 3.2–4.8 mm, apex acute proximal to beak, valves separating at dehiscence.

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

fusiform, 0.7–1.2 mm, tailed;

body covered with whitish translucent veil.

= 80.