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Depressed and stoloniferous; flowers mostly cleistogamous; leaves small, suborbicular to reniform.—Ky. to Fla. and Tex.

From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa

The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

P. lateral, produced at base into a short oblique stem, suborbicular or reniform, exp. very glabrous, smoky fuscous, centre paler; g. white, anastomosing behind. salignus, Pers.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

P. thin, reniform or suborbicular, convex then exp. ochre or subfuscous, glabrous, somewhat shining; g. numerous, very thin, colour of p.; s. lateral, oblique; sp.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The first glume is suborbicular, about half the length of the third glume, usually 3-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.