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..2 Lemmas of the pistillate spikelets flexible and chartaceous, dull, bearing short, scattered hairs, these not or only slightly more dense toward the tip
..2 Lemmas of the pistillate spikelets stiff and coriaceous, lustrous, glabrous or with lines of short hairs, the tips usually more hairy.
....3 Lower pistillate branches with 9-30 spikelets; pistillate portion of the inflorescence 10-40 (or more) cm wide, the branches ascending to widely divergent; leaves 10-40+ mm wide
....3 Lower pistillate branches with 2-8 spikelets; pistillate portion of the inflorescence 1-8 (-15) cm wide, the branches appressed or ascending; leaves 3-21 mm wide