Compilation
Staberoha imbricata

stems cæspitose, procurrent, 2–3 ft. high, slender, unbranched, wrinkled, brownish; leaf-sheaths 1 1/2 in. long, closely convolute, coriaceous, thinner at the margins; apex abruptly tapering, sometimes aristate; sterile stems shorter, branching; male spikelets 2–7, at the apex of the branches, approximate, pedunculate; peduncles erect, or generally nodding, as long as the spikelet; spikelets 3/4 in. long, suborbicular, compressed; spathe bract-like, shorter than the spikelet; bracts oblong, acute, ultimately spreading; perianth-segments hyaline; the outer lateral acute, slightly keeled, glabrous; inner 3 smaller; female plant as in the male; spikelets 1 or 2, sessile, or stalked, erect, 1 1/4 in. long, oblong, obtuse, many-flowered; spathe sheath-like, open, half the length of the spikelet; bracts at first close, afterwards spreading at the tips, ovate-oblong, acute, coriaceous, thinner along the upper margin, undulate, ultimately deciduous; outer perianth-segments subequal; lateral navicular, conduplicate, deeply winged; wing sometimes undulate and erose at the margin; ovary pyriform, with 2 styles; fruit oblong, obtuse, surmounted by the remains of the styles. null