distinct; anthers basifixed; pistils 1, 2–3 (–4) -carpellate, fused, locule 1; style undivided or branches 2–3 (–4); stigma sometimes papillate. Fruits achenes
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or absent, blade apex entire, notched, or 2 (-4) -fid, sometimes dentate or laciniate; stamens 1-10, in 1 or 2 whorls, arising from base of ovary, nectariferous
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appendaged, margins entire or emarginate to 2-fid, rarely pinnatifid [fimbriate or filiform]; stamens (2 or 4) 6 [8–24], in 2 whorls, usually tetradynamous (lateral
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per locule, anatropous; styles 1–5 (–9), distinct or connate, unbranched, 2-fid, or multifid; stigmas 1–32+. Fruits usually capsules, dehiscence septicidal
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brown, dull. Stems erect-ascending and often 2-fid, or creeping, branches many, erect or ascending, simple or 2-fid; outer cell-walls thick, central strand
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apex entire or emarginate to 2-fid, sometimes dentate to lacinate; stamens (5 or) 10 (absent in pistillate flowers), in 1 or 2 whorls, arising from base of
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absent, blade apex entire or 2-fid, sometimes jagged or emarginate, rarely laciniate; stamens absent or (1–) 5 (–10), in 1 or 2 whorls, arising from base
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per spikelet. Flowers: anthers 0.2–2.5 mm; styles 2-fid or 3-fid. Achenes variously colored, biconvex to trigonous, 0.4–2 mm, smooth to markedly sculptured
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absent. Pistillate flowers: sepals [3–] (4–) 5 (–9) [–10] or 0, imbricate or valvate, distinct (connate for 1/2+ length in C. argyranthemus); petals 5 (sometimes
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wings; perianth absent; stamens 1–3; styles linear, 2–3-fid, base deciduous or persistent; stigmas 2–3. Achenes biconvex, flattened, or trigonous. Pantemperate
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usually greatly exceeding tubercle; styles 3-fid and 2-fid (rarely all 2-fid or all 3-fid?); stamens 3 (or 2); widespread. Eleocharis obtusa 12 All or some
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or hemitropous; styles [2–] 3–10 [–15], distinct or connate, unbranched or 2-fid; stigmas [2–] 3–10 [–15] (as many as style divisions). Fruits usually capsules
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elongate in usually 2–4 rows, costa in medial transverse-section usually with a differentiated epidermis adaxially or on both sides, 1 or 2 stereid bands, the
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shorter than to 2 times longer than achene, retrorsely (to antrorsely) spinulose or sometimes smooth stamens 1–3; styles linear, 2–3-fid, base (tubercle)
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in capitate glomerules). Involucre ± actinomorphic, not spurred; glands (2–) 4, slightly concave, flat, or slightly convex; appendages petaloid or absent
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bristles are usually absent, when present, 1–2, caducous, and sparsely spinulose; the styles are (2–)3-fid, greatly elongated, stigmas are exserted from
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(double in Splachnum); exostome teeth 8–12 or 16, rarely 2-fid, approximate in groups of 2 and 4, densely and finely papillose. Calyptra mitrate or rarely
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appendages absent, blade apex entire, erose, or 2 (–4) -fid, sometimes emarginate; stamens (1–) 3–5 (–10), in 1 or 2 whorls, usually arising from base of ovary
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with internal protrusion dividing carpel into 2 cells, dehiscence loculicidal, rarely indehiscent. Seeds 2–30, often reniform, glabrous or hairy. Nearly
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adaxial 2, adaxial lip galeate, rounded at apex, opening downward; stamens (2 or) 4, didynamous, filaments hairy or glabrous; staminode 0; ovary 2-locular
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3-carpellate; styles 3, distinct or connate basally to most of length, unbranched or 2-fid. Fruits capsules, tardily dehiscent and with spongy mesocarp in E. lathyris
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isodiametric, 6–24 µm, papillose only over lumina, papillae 1–4 per cell, conic or 2-fid; marginal cells gradually shorter than basal. Sexual condition
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deciduous or variously persistent, linear, 2–3 (–4) -fid. Achenes biconvex, planoconvex, or trigonous, rarely 4-angled. x = 10. Worldwide Species ca. 2000
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terminal, or scapose, 1-flowered or cymose, subtended by spathe; spathe a 2-fid bract or pair of opposite bracts. Flowers unisexual, staminate and pistillate
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ringed at base by a nectary, distally 2-branched with stigmatic papillae borne on adaxial face of each branch in 2 separate or contiguous lines or in 1
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superior to inferior, (2–) 3 (–4) -locular, often with septal nectaries, ovules usually several or many per locule; styles 1 or 3 (–4); stigmas several and
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90 cm × 2 mm. Leaves: distal leaf-sheaths usually persistent, thinly membranous to papery. Spikelets terete, to 13 × 4 mm. Flowers: styles 2-fid or with
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lanuginose to sericeous or nearly glabrous; apices usually entire, sometimes 2–3-fid, sometimes aristate to spinose (uncinate in Ancistrocarphus filagineus)
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nectary 5 glands; pistil 3 (–4) -carpellate; styles 3, distinct or connate proximally, 2-fid, branches 6 per flower, [2 times 2-fid]. Fruits capsules, not muricate
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broadly rounded, acute, or acuminate; ecostate to costa percurrent, sometimes 2-fid, occasionally sinuate distally; alar cells shorter than laminal cells, isodiametric
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shallow cup); stamens 1, 2, or 3–10; filaments distinct or connate; ovary (stipitate or sessile), 2-carpellate; ovules (2–) 4–24 (–42) per ovary; styles
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large, in lax to dense tufts. Stems erect or sometimes decumbent, simple, 2-fid, fastigiate, or with subfloral whorl of branches, usually tomentose proximally
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longer than achene, seldom smooth; stamens 2–3; styles undivided or shallowly 2-fid, or deeply cleft into 2 (–3) linear stigmatic branches; style base
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ovary; style 1 per carpel, distinct or connate; stigmas 2–4, truncate, notched-capitate, or 2-lobed or 3-lobed. Fruits capsular, baccate, or drupaceous
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(–70). Pistillate flowers: ovary glabrous or hairy; styles connate basally, 2-fid. Seeds: caruncle present or absent. North America, Mexico, West Indies, Central
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-carpellate; styles 3 (–4), distinct or connate to 1/2 length, 2-fid [rarely unbranched]. Fruits capsules or drupes. Seeds 2 per locule, rounded-trigonous; seed-coat
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arrangement: terminal pleiochasia with (1–) 2–17 primary branches; individual pleiochasial branches unbranched or 2–4 branched at 1 or more successive nodes;
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absent. Staminate flowers: sepals 4, not petaloid, 1–2 [–3] mm, valvate, distinct [connate]; petals 0; nectary absent; stamens 4–8, distinct; anthers elongated
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(sometimes translucent in S. borealis), not clawed, blade apex 2-fid usually for 2/3–4/5 its length (S. holostea occasionally laciniate); nectaries at
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subentire; apex usually acuminate; ecostate or costa single, double, or 2-fid, short or to mid leaf; alar cells not or weakly differentiated; medial laminal
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not hooded; petals (4–) 5 or sometimes absent, white (purple-tinged in C. pumilum and C. regelii), clawed, blade apex 2-fid 1/5–1/2 of length, notched,
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styles 1–2 (–3), distinct or often connate proximally 1/10–9/10 of length, subcapitate to filiform, 0.07–3.2 mm, glabrous proximally; stigmas 2 (–3), subterminal
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brownish, clawed or not, blade apex entire, erose, emarginate, or rarely 2-fid; nectaries usually 5, prominent at (or adjacent to in E. eastwoodiae) base
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unisexual; perianth absent; stamens 1–3; anthers 2–4 mm, apex usually mucronate or awned; styles linear, 2–3-fid, base deciduous or persistent, hypogynium rudimentary
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mutabilis), 6–16, rarely minute or absent (H. denudatus), distinct, undivided, 2-fid or appendaged (H. acetosella, H. aculeatus, H. furcellatus, H. radiatus)
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3-fid and 2-fid. Achenes biconvex, sometimes compressed trigonous, sometimes distally constricted into a distinct, thick neck, 1.4–3 mm, markedly (to obscurely)
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subtending flower or proximal 1–2 empty. Flowers bisexual; perianth absent; stamens 1–3; styles flattened or subterete, 2–3-fid, base enlarged, deciduous. Achenes
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reddish-brown or brown, cleft into 2–3 filiform, terete prongs in the distal half, occasionally 2-fid nearly to the base. Calyptra 4–5-lobed at the base, naked
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cells before apex to short-excurrent, adaxial cells quadrate to elongate, in 2–4 (–8) rows; transverse-section ovate, semicircular or reniform, adaxial epidermis
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connate basally into tube, 2–16 cm; tepals subequal; stamens 6, of 2 different lengths, appearing equal or subequal (anthers in 2 overlapping sets of 3) to
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filiform to flat with filiform tip, to 25 cm × 2.5–4 mm. Inflorescences terminal, spikelets solitary, erect or (1–) 2–10 (–30) in subcapitate or subumbellate
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or pubescent, trichomes usually simple, rarely mixed with fewer, stalked, 2-rayed ones. Stems usually erect or ascending, rarely subdecumbent, unbranched
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sessile or short-clawed trunk, auricles absent, blade apex divided into 2 or 4 lobes; nectaries at base of filaments opposite sepals; stamens 5; filaments
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longer than achene, not obscuring scales in fruit; stamens 1–3; styles (2–) 3-fid, linear, base persistent. Achenes trigonous, biconvex or planoconvex, 0
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placentation axile; styles simple or 2-fid; stigma capitate, clavate, linear, 2-lobed, or emarginate. Fruits capsules, 9–12 mm, dehiscence poricidal, each loculus
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or empty; floral scales ca. 4–12 per spikelet, spiraled, 2.5–6 mm, with 1 vein, membranous. Styles 3-fid, or 3-fid and 2-fid. Achenes trigonous, or trigonous
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retrorsely spinulose; stamens 3; styles linear, 2–3-fid, base persistent. Achenes biconvex to trigonous, 2.3–5.5 mm, smooth. Nearly worldwide Species 6–15
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> 12 12 Leaf blades 4–12.2 mm wide, always some more than 10 mm wide, margins usually entire, rarely dentate, teeth 0(–4), 0.1–1.4 mm; seed coat cell papillae
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transversely elliptical along margins, 6–12 (–18) µm wide, papillae usually 2-fid, crowded, 2–6 per lumen, occasionally single and multiplex and covering the lumens
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asymmetric; annulus 2–4-seriate; operculum conic or rostrate from convex-conic base; endostome segments not perforate, cilia in groups of 2–4. North America
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Culms 1–40 cm × 0.2–1.2 mm, spongy, transverse septa incomplete. Spikelets ovoid to subcylindric, terete, much wider than their culms, 2–9 mm; rachilla with
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ovatelanceolate or oblong, undivided, 2-fid, or divided, 2–8 (–12) mm, not involucrelike, distal entire to 2-fid, stipulelike, proximalmost not involucrelike
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rhomboidal, distal laminal cells ca. 15–19 µm wide, 1: 1–2, papillae mostly hollow, simple or 2-fid, 4–6 per lumen, occasionally on conic salients, cell-walls
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or elongate, in 2 (4–6) rows; transverse-section usually round, adaxial epidermis present, adaxial stereid band absent, guide cells 2 (–4) in 1 layer, hydroid
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flower, others empty. Flowers bisexual; perianth scales 1–2; stamens 1–2; styles linear, 2–3-fid, base deciduous or persistent, thickened or not. Achenes
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0.5–0.8 mm, 2-fid 1/3–1/2 length. Capsules oblate, 1.5–2.6 × 2.1–3.3 mm, glabrous or puberulent, strigillose, or pilose; columella 1.2–2.1 mm. Seeds brown
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absent; ovule 1, membranous; styles absent or short; stigmas 2-fid or seldom irregularly 3-fid (in var. oblongifolia), deltoid. Utricules subglobose, proximally
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each subtending flower or 1–2 proximal scales empty. Flowers bisexual; perianth absent; stamens 1–3; styles slender, (2–) 3-fid, glabrous, base enlarged,
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to sparsely retrorsely-spreading spinulose; anthers 0.4–0.6 mm; styles 2-fid or 2-fid and 3-fid. Achenes brown, turning blackish, thinly to thickly planoconvex
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rudimentary to equaling achene; stamens 3; anthers brown, 1.5–2 mm; styles 2-fid, sometimes some 3-fid. Achenes not persistent, dark yellow or stramineous, obovoid
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hairy; styles distinct, occasionally appearing connate at base, unbranched or 2-fid. Seeds: caruncle present or absent. x = 7. North America, Mexico, West Indies
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cuspidate, or ± truncate, occasionally 2-fid or 3-fid; petiole 0.1–6.9 (–15.2) cm; blade ovate to deltate, 1.2–7.7 × 0.8–7.8 cm, base cordate to truncate
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[yellow, yellowbrown, orange, or 2-colored]; nectary extrastaminal, annular and 5-lobed or of 5 glands; stamens [6–] 8 or 10 in 1–2 whorls, distinct or connate
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5–1 mm wide; distal 10–40 × 0.3–2 mm, margins entire. Inflorescences spikes, 2–7-flowered, or flowers solitary; bracts 1–4, 5–20 mm, margins entire or 3-lobed
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or obtuse; costa single, ending just before apex, or branched to 2-fid and ending 1/2–9/10 leaf length; alar cells differentiated, rectangular to long-rectangular
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sometimes 2-fid, 1/3–3/4 leaf length; alar cells not differentiated; laminal cells smooth. Branch leaves ovate to lanceolate; costa single, double, or 2-fid
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yellowish. Stems 0.5–10 (–16) cm, erect to inclined or procumbent, simple, 2-fid, or with subfloral whorl of branches; pentagonal in cross-section, hyalodermis
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not callose, tooth rarely present on some culms, 0.2 mm. Spikelets ovoid or subspheric, 5–12 × 2–3 (–4) mm, apex acute to obtuse; proximal scale amplexicaulous
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Involucres campanulate to obconic, 2–7 mm diam. Phyllaries persistent, 8–13 (–22) in ± 2 series (strongly connate 2/3–7/8+ their lengths, seldom with outer
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quadrate, usually 1: 1, 1-stratose; papillae hollow or solid, multiplex to 2-fid, 2–3 per lumen, occasionally simple or absent, cell-walls thin to evenly thickened
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sometimes yellowish or yellowish-brown distally. Stems 0.5–15 cm, erect, 2-fid, lacking subfloral whorl of branches; rounded in cross-section, hyalodermis
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styles 3, 1–2.5 mm, deeply 2-fid, terminal segments 6. Capsules 3.5–6 × 4–5 mm, smooth; columella 3-angled. Seeds 3–4 × 2–2.5 mm, shiny. 2n = 16. Generated
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stout; floral bract usually tawny, sometimes greenish, apex entire, erose, 2-fid, or irregularly toothed; pistillate bract deciduous (persistent in S. floridana
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apiculate; costa ending well below apex (to about 7/8 leaf length and often 2-fid distally), subpercurrent, or percurrent, distal abaxial surface smooth; medial
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sometimes smooth, usually papillose only over lumina, papillae 1 (or 2) per cell, conic, 2-fid, or clavate; marginal cells abruptly shorter than basal. Sexual
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stamens 2 (–3); anthers 0.3–0.5 mm; styles 2-fid or some 3-fid. Achenes 0.75–1 × 0.6–0.8 mm. Tubercles deltoid, 0.2–0.3 × 0.35–0.45 (–0.55) mm, 1/2–3/4as high
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styles usually 3-fid and 2-fid in same spikelet. Achenes 0.9–1.2 (–1.3) × 0.7–0.9 mm. Tubercles deltoid 0.35–0.5 × (0.4–) 0.5–0.8 mm, 1/3–2/3 as high as wide
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stamens 2 (–3); anthers yellow, 0.2–0.3 mm; styles 2-fid or some 3-fid. Achenes 0.7–1 × 0.6–0.9 mm. Tubercles deltoid 0.1–0.2 × 0.25–0.45 mm, 1/3–1/2 as high
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(glabrous); anthers ovate or oblong, (not apiculate); nectar glands (1, 2, or 4), distinct or confluent, subtending bases of stamens, median glands present
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× 0.4–1.6 mm, membranous, apex acute. Flowers: perianth bristles (0–) 5–8, typically 7, white to stramineous, spinules dense to few; styles 2-fid, rarely
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Association Culms 2–35 cm × 0.3–1 mm. Leaves: apex of distal leaf-sheath obtuse to acute, tooth to 0.2 mm. Spikelets ovoid, 2–8 × 2–4 mm, apex acute (to
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spikes 1–4, sessile, densely ovoid or cylindric; spikelets [15–] 40–150 per spike, not readily distinguished by unaided eye; involucral-bracts 2–4, spreading
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pistil 1, (2–) 3–4 (–5) -carpellate, ovary superior, (2–) 3–4 (–5) -locular; placentation axile; ovules [1–] 2 per locule, anatropous; styles (2–) 3–4 (–5) [–8]
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retrorsely spinulose to appressed-spinulose; anthers 0.5–0.7 mm; styles 2-fid or 2-fid and 3-fid. Achenes brown, turning blackish, thickly biconvex, sometimes planoconvex
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of tissue; styles spreading, 0.3–0.4 mm, 2-fid 1/2 to nearly entire length. Capsules broadly deltoid, 1.2–1.5 × 2–2.2 mm, glabrous or hairy; columella 0
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subcylindric, rarely lanceoloid, 4–12 × (1.5–) 2–3 mm, apex rounded to acute; proximal scale amplexicaulous or clasping over 3/4 of culm, entire; subproximal
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times as long as achene, smooth or scabrous; stamens 3; styles linear, 3-fid, base persistent. Achenes trigonous or planoconvex. Circumpolar to circumboreal
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sheathing; blade linear, rarely exceeding 2 cm wide, smooth. Scape hollow. Inflorescences umbellate, 1 [–4] -flowered, spathaceous; spathe proximally
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crenate; pistil 3 (–4) -carpellate; styles 3 (–4), distinct, usually 2-fid to 1/2 length, very rarely 2-fid to base. Fruits capsules. Seeds 2 per locule, rounded-trigonous;
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ecostate, costa double and short, or single, faint, 1/4–1/2 leaf length, sometimes unevenly 2-fid distally; laminal cells smooth or mammillose abaxially
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