Flora of North America species comparison

absent.

present.

compressed, without spots, 10–135 cm;

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

terete, without spots, to 250 cm;

nodal glands 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.

absent.

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).

submersed, ± spirally arranged, sessile, lax;

stipules deteriorating into fibers and deciduous, inconspicuous (absent on proximal portion of stem), convolute, free from blade, light brown to green, not ligulate, 3.5–6.5 cm, not fibrous, not shredding at apex;

blade olive-green, broadly lanceolate, orbiculate, or ovate, not arcuate, 0.9–7.6(–9.7) cm × 7–40 mm, base rounded, without basal lobes, clasping, margins entire, often crispate, apex not hoodlike, not splitting when pressed, round, rarely acute;

veins 3–25.

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.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, terminal or axillary, erect to rarely recurved, cylindric, 1–7.3 cm;

spike not dimorphic, cylindric, 0.4–4.8 cm.

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.

sessile, greenish brown to olive-green, obovoid, turgid or rarely concave, not abaxially or laterally keeled, 1.6–3 × 1.3–2.2 mm;

beak erect, 0.4–0.6 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with 1 full spiral.

= 26.

= 52.