Flora of North America species comparison

densely cespitose, 5-20 cm.

densely to loosely cespitose, 10–40 cm.

sheaths brown to straw-colored;

basal leaves to 10 cm × 4 mm;

cauline leaves usually 2, reduced.

basal leaves 3.5–12 cm × 2–6 mm;

cauline leaves equaling or exceeding inflorescences.

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.

glomerules 3–16 (each with 8–16 flowers), 1–2 nearly sessile with others on evident peduncles, mostly cylindric;

secondary branches sometimes present, usually straight, erect;

proximal inflorescence bract barely as long as to exceeding inflorescence.

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

anthers ± equaling filament length.

tepals pale brown to chestnut brown to blackish with clear margins, 2–4 mm;

outer and inner whorl ± equal, or outer whorl slightly longer (outer whorl pointed, inner whorl pointed or truncate-mucronate);

anthers not more than 2 times filament length;

stigmas 0.8–1.5 mm;

styles not persistent in fruit.

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

pale to brown to black, globose, shorter than to ± equaling tepals.

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

1.1–1.7 mm;

caruncles 0.2–0.6 mm.

= 24.