1.Branchlets pubescent to glabrescent with minute scurfy hairs intermixed with unguicular scales.
小具短柔毛后脱落有微小鳞屑毛与具爪鳞片混生。
2.Young stems terete to frequently 4-angled or subalate, glabrous, puberulous, pubescent, or tomentose, often glabrescent.
嫩茎圆经常地四棱形或略似翼,无毛,被微柔毛,短柔毛,或被绒毛,通常后脱落。
3.In Japan the leaf sheaths are always conspicuously tuberculate-hispid; the older, lower sheaths with disarticulated blades are glabrescent and spotted with tubercles.