Flora of North America species comparison

present.

absent.

flattened, without spots, 10–90 cm;

glands absent.

compressed, without spots, 10–135 cm;

glands green, greenish brown, or gold, to 0.7 mm diam.

absent.

terminal or lateral, common, 1.5–5 cm × 1.5–4 mm, soft;

leaves ± 4-ranked;

outer leaves 2–3 per side, base corrugate, apex apiculate to acute;

inner leaves reduced, arranged into fan-shaped structure and oriented at 90° angles to outer leaves.

both submersed and floating or floating absent, ± spirally arranged.

submersed, ± spirally arranged, delicate to rigid, sessile;

stipules not persistent, inconspicuous, convolute, free from blade, white, not ligulate, 0.55–2.1 cm, fibrous, coarse, shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade light green, rarely olive-green to.somewhat reddish, linear, not arcuate, 2.3–6.5 cm × 1.2–3.2 mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, acute to apiculate, lacunae absent or 1 narrow row each side of midrib;

veins 5–7(–9).

petiolate;

petioles continuous in color to apex, 2–12.5 cm;

blade adaxially light green, narrowly oblong-oblanceolate to elliptic, 2–8 cm × 4–20 mm, base acute, apex rounded or bluntly cuspidate;

veins 11–41.

sessile, lax;

stipules persistent, inconspicuous, convolute, free from blade, red-brown, not ligulate, 1–3 cm, not fibrous, not shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade red-brown to light green, linear, not arcuate, 5–22 cm × 1–10 mm, base not clasping, without basal lobes, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, blunt to acute, lacunae present, broad band each side of midvein;

veins 3–13.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, axillary, erect, cylindric, 1.5–5(–16) cm;

spikes not dimorphic, cylindric, 0.8–4 cm.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, terminal or axillary, erect or rarely recurved, slightly clavate, 1.2–4.1(–7) cm;

spike not dimorphic, cylindric, 7–16 mm.

sessile, greenish brown, round-obovoid, flattened, abaxially and laterally keeled, 2.5–4.5 × 2–3.6 mm, lateral keels without sharp points;

beak erect, 0.5 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with less than 1 full spiral.

sessile, olive-green to brown, obovoid, turgid, not abaxially or laterally keeled, 1.8–2.5 × 1.2–2 mm;

beak erect, 0.3–0.7 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with 1 full spiral.

= 26.

= 26.