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Spikelets are 2- to 3-flowered, distichously racemed, narrowly turbinate, villous.

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

Spikelets distichously spreading, secund, keels of palea winged 8.

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

Aërides.—A large genus of evergreen Orchids with distichously arranged, leathery, green leaves, the stem producing air-roots freely.

From Orchids by O'Brien, James

The leaf-sheath is glabrous, faintly and finely striate, distichously imbricate, compressed, somewhat keeled, outer margin ciliate, and bearded at the mouth.

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