Flora of North America species comparison

short.

densely cespitose, 5-20 cm.

cespitose, 15–30(–35) cm.

sheaths brown to straw-colored;

basal leaves to 10 cm × 4 mm;

cauline leaves usually 2, reduced.

sheath throat acutely angled, pilose;

basal leaf blade 5–10 cm × 3–8 mm, apex short acuminate, mostly glabrous;

cauline leaves (1–)2–4, 3–5 cm × 2–4 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, few flowered;

main branches generally 2–4, spreading less than 90°, lax, usually arching;

proximal inflorescence bract 1 cm or less;

bracts and bracteoles brown;

margins with long curly cilia.

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

anthers ± equaling filament length.

solitary on short pedicels;

tepals dark purplish brown (margins finely lacerate toward apex), 2–2.5 mm, margins finely lacerate toward apex, apex acute, not reflexed;

anthers ± equaling filament length;

stigmas 2 times style length.

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

dark brown, less than 2.5 mm, slightly longer than tepals;

beak absent.

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

dark reddish brown, cylindric, 1.2–1.6 mm;

caruncle essentially absent.

= 24.

= 24.