Flora of North America species comparison

slightly compressed, without spots, 4–75 cm;

glands rarely present, black to gold, to 0.5 mm diam.

compressed-filiform, without spots, to 50 cm;

glands white, 0.3–0.5 mm diam.

uncommon, lateral or terminal, 0.9–2.5 cm × 0.6–2 mm, soft;

outer leaves 1–3 per side, base not corrugate, apex acute to apiculate;

inner leaves rolled into hardened fusiform structure.

lateral, common, 3.5–9.5 cm × 2–5 mm, soft;

leaves ± 2-ranked;

outer leaves 3–4 per side, base not corrugate;

inner leaves undifferentiated.

submersed, ± spirally arranged, sessile, delicate;

stipules persistent, inconspicuous, convolute, free from blade, greenish to brown or rarely white, not ligulate, 0.2–2.2 cm, delicate to fibrous, rarely shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade pale green to olive-green, rarely somewhat reddish, linear, not arcuate, 1.3–8.2 cm × 0.3–2.3 mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, acute to apiculate, rarely with bristle, lacunae rarely present, 0–2 rows each side of midrib;

veins 1–3(–5).

submersed, ± spirally arranged, sessile, flaccid;

stipules deliquescent, inconspicuous, convolute, free from blade, pale brown, not ligulate, 1–2 cm, not fibrous, not shredding, apex obtuse;

blade dark green, linear, not arcuate, 3.5–9.5 cm × 1.5–2 mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, rounded or nearly acute to mucronate, lacunae in 1–2 rows each side of midvein;

veins 9–17.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, in axils of proximal, rarely distal leaves, recurved, clavate, 0.3–1.1(–3.7) cm;

spikes not dimorphic, capitate to cylindric, 1.5–7 mm.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, axillary, erect, cylindric, 1.7–3.5 cm;

spikes not dimorphic, cylindric, 10–30 mm.

pale green to olive-green or brown, obovate to nearly orbicular, turgid to concave, sessile, abaxially keeled, not laterally keeled, 1.4–2.7 × 1.1–2.2 mm, abaxial keel undulate, winglike;

beak erect, 0.2–0.6 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with 1 full spiral.

sessile, reddish brown, oblong-obovoid, compressed, abaxially ridged, not laterally keeled, 3–4 × 1.5–2 mm;

beak nearly erect, 0.3–0.5 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with 1 full coil.

absent.

absent.