Flora of North America species comparison

short to long-running, thick.

densely cespitose, 5-20 cm.

cespitose, 15–50 cm.

sheaths brown to straw-colored;

basal leaves to 10 cm × 4 mm;

cauline leaves usually 2, reduced.

basal blade flat, apex involute?? revolute??, mostly glabrous;

cauline leaves 3–5, 2–6 cm × 3–10 mm.

glomerules 1-3, sessile;

proximal inflorescence bract inconspicuous, brown, much shorter to ± equaling inflorescence, apex often clear, dentate;

bracts deep brown, margins dentate;

bracteoles deep brown, margins dentate.

anthelate;

branches spreading less than 90°, lax;

proximal bracts much shorter than inflorescence;

bracts brownish, clear toward apex, margins lacerate;

bracteoles light brown, 1/2 length of tepals, margins dentate.

tepals deep brown with narrow clear margins and apex, 1.7-2.1 mm;

anthers ± equaling filament length.

solitary or in pairs;

tepals reddish to dark brown, nearly equal, 2.5–3.5 mm, apex acute, not reflexed;

anthers 3 times filament length;

stigmas 2 times style length.

dark reddish to blackish, shining, spheric, 1.8-2.1 mm, usually exceeding tepals.

blackish, ovoid, 2.5–3.5 mm;

beak to 1 mm.

translucent, clear brown, broadly elliptic, with few entangled hairs, 1-1.2 mm.

dark brown, 1.2–1.8 mm;

caruncle barely visible.

= 24.