Flora of North America species comparison

absent.

present.

compressed-filiform, without spots, to 50 cm;

glands green, golden brown to dark brown, 0.2–0.6 mm diam.

compressed, without spots, 10–25 cm;

glands absent.

terminal or lateral, uncommon, 3.7–9.9 × 2.6–6 cm, soft to hard;

leaves flattened with outer and inner leaves in same plane;

outer leaves 1–2 per side, base not corrugate, apex apiculate;

inner leaves undifferentiated or rolled into hardened, fusiform structure.

absent.

submersed, ± spirally arranged, sessile, rigid;

stipules persistent, inconspicuous, convolute, free from blade, brown or rarely white, not ligulate, 0.9–2.1 cm, slightly fibrous, partially shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade somewhat reddish to olive-green, linear, not arcuate, 1.5–10 cm × 1.2–2.9 mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, cuspidate to bristle-tipped, lacunae present or absent, in 0–3 rows each side of midvein;

veins 3–9(–13).

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

petiolate;

petioles continuous in color to apex, 5–35 mm;

blade adaxially light green, lanceolate-elliptic to broadly elliptic, 0.6–2.3(–2.8) cm × 1–11 mm, base tapering or rounded, apex acute to long tapering;

veins 3–7.

sessile, lax;

stipules persistent to deliquescent, inconspicuous, convolute, adnate to blade for less than ½ stipule length, light green, ligulate, 0.2–1.2 cm, not fibrous, not shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade light green to rarely brown, linear-setaceous, not arcuate, 1.5–11 cm × 0.1–0.4(–0.6) mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, tapering, lacunae absent;

veins 1.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, terminal or occasionally axillary, erect or rarely recurved, slightly clavate, 1–3 cm;

spikes not dimorphic, cylindric, 5–11 mm.

unbranched;

peduncles dimorphic, submersed axillary, somewhat recurved, clavate, 1–10 mm, emersed axillary or terminal, erect to slightly recurved, slightly clavate, 3.5–22 mm;

spikes dimorphic, submersed, globular to ellipsoid, 1.5–7 mm, emersed ellipsoid to cylindric, 3–14 mm.

sessile, dark green, orbicular, turgid, abaxial keel obscure, lateral keels obscure or absent, 2.5–3 × 2.2–3 mm, lateral keels if present without points;

beak erect, 0.5 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with 1 full spiral.

sessile, greenish brown, somewhat orbicular, compressed, abaxially keeled, laterally keeled, 1.1–2.1 × 1.1–2 mm, lateral keel without points;

beak absent;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with more than 1 full spiral.

unknownnot available.