pedicellate
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The spikelets are small, pedicellate, smooth, usually 6 to 14-flowered, pale but often tinged with red, the rachilla is jointed between the flowering glumes, and breaks away from above downwards.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
In Trichobasis, the spores are of a similar character, sub-globose, and at first pedicellate; but there are no surrounding cysts, and the colour is more usually brown, although sometimes yellow.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
The spikelets are pale, ovoid, acute, biseriate, imbricate, very shortly pedicellate, glabrous, 1/16 to 1/8 inch, pedicels are hairy with a few long hairs towards the base.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The spikelets are very narrow, sessile or pedicellate, articulated on the pedicel, 1-flowered and 1-glumed.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Fruit drupe-like, with an oblong, 8-striate stone.—Leaves alternate, entire and petioled, and flowers axillary and pedicellate.
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
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