Flora of North America species comparison

absent.

present.

terete to slightly compressed, without spots, 18–150 cm;

glands present on at least some nodes, green, gold, brown, or rarely white, to 0.5 mm diam.

terete, often rusty spotted, 6–110 cm;

nodal glands absent.

common, soft, lateral or terminal, 0.9–3.2 cm × 0.3–1.8 mm, soft;

leaves ± 2-ranked;

outer leaves 1–3 per side, base not corrugate, apex subulate to obtuse;

inner leaves rolled into hardened fusiform structure.

absent.

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

stipules persistent, inconspicuous, connate or convolute, free from base of blade, brown to green or white, not ligulate, 0.31–0.92 cm, rarely appearing fibrous, not shredding at tip, apex obtuse;

blade pale green to olive-green, rarely somewhat reddish, linear, not arcuate, 0.9–6.5 cm × 0.2–2.5 mm, base slightly tapering, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, not crispate, apex not hoodlike, subulate to obtuse, lacunae absent or present, in 0–5 rows each side of midrib;

veins 1–3(–5).

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

petioles continuous in color to apex, 2.3–22.6 cm;

blade adaxially light green, lanceolate to round elliptic, 4.3–9.2 cm × 25–38 mcm, base rounded to cordate, apex acute to rounded;

veins 27–49.

petiolate, lax;

stipules persistent, conspicuous, convolute, free from blade, light brown, not ligulate, 1.5–11.7 cm, not fibrous, not shredding at tip, apex acute;

petioles terete, 0.9–11.5 cm;

blade light to dark green, ovate to oblanceolate, distinctly arcuate, 5–12.5 cm × 15–58 mm, base rounded to acute, without basal lobes, not clasping, margins entire, crispate, apex not hoodlike, acute to round-apiculate, lacunae absent;

veins 19–49.

unbranched, submersed or emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, axillary or terminal, erect, rarely recurved, filiform to slightly clavate, 0.5–6.2(–6.6) cm;

spikes not dimorphic, capitate to cylindric, 1.5–10.1 mm.

unbranched, emersed;

peduncles not dimorphic, terminal or axillary, erect, cylindric, 4.5–22.3 cm;

spikes not dimorphic, cylindric, 34–65 mm.

sessile, green to brown, ovoid to obovoid, turgid to concave, not abaxially or laterally keeled, 1.5–2.2 × 1.2–1.6 mm;

beak erect, 0.1–0.6;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with less than 1 full spiral.

sessile, reddish brown, obovoid, turgid, abaxially keeled, laterally ridged, 5–6.7 × 4.5–5.2 mm, lateral ridges without points;

beak erect, 0.5–0.8 mm;

sides without basal tubercles;

embryo with full spiral.

= 52.