1	"Style 1; fruit a unilocular capsule"	"Loxocarya magna"
1	"Styles 2; fruit a bilocular capsule"	2
2	"Culms widely spaced on stout, widely-spreading rhizomes; male spikelets 2-3 mm long"	"Loxocarya cinerea"
2	"Culms densley tufted on erect or shortly creeping rhizomes; male spikelets >4 mm long"	3
3	"Culms 3-4 mm diam. at base, c. 2 mm high and nodding, some bearing multi-branched axillary vegetative branches; female spikelets 1-3 per culm, 30-50 mm long"	"Loxocarya gigas"
3	"Culms <=2 mm diam., <=1 m high; female spikelets 2-many per culm, 7-10 mm long"	4
4	"Culms 0.8-1.2 mm diam. at base, straight and sparingly branched at top; female spikelets 2-5 per culm, 8-10 mm long"	"Loxocarya albipes"
4	"Culms 1-2 mm diam. at base, twisted and freely branched throughout; female spikelets many per culm, 7-9 mm long"	"Loxocarya striata"