Flora of North America species comparison

erect or decumbent, usually branched proximally and distally, glabrous or minutely pubescent.

persistent;

ocrea margins not ciliate;

blade linear to narrowly clavate or broadly spatulate, (3–)4–16(–36) × (0.3–)0.6–3.6(–5) mm, base barely tapered to attenuate, margins hyaline at least along distal 1/2, apex obtuse, glabrous.

(2–)4–20(–33) mm;

ocreola encircling rachis, only the base adnate to rachis, apex acute to acuminate.

spreading in anthesis, spreading to reflexed in fruit, 0.2–0.9 mm, as long or much longer than subtending ocreola.

functionally unisexual;

filaments dimorphic;

anthers pink, orange, or yellow;

styles and stigma ca. 0.1 mm in anthesis.

outer tepals loosely appressed in anthesis, reflexed in fruit, white, broadly elliptic, 0.9–1.8 mm in anthesis, margins entire;

inner tepals appressed in anthesis and fruit, white, elliptic, 0.9–1.7 mm in anthesis, margins entire.

outer tepals loosely appressed in anthesis, usually reflexed in fruit, white to pink, often drying yellow, broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.5–1.3 mm in anthesis, margins entire;

inner tepals appressed in anthesis and fruit, white to pink, often drying yellow or red, broadly elliptic to ovate, 0.6–1.5 mm in anthesis, margins entire.

mostly included, brown to yellow-brown, 3-gonous, 1.3–2.1 × 0.7–1.2 mm, shiny, smooth.

= 28.