pedicellate
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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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
The spikelets are shortly pedicellate, pale-green about 1/4 inch long exclusive of the awn.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
Spikelets spicate, in pairs, the pedicellate sterile or rudimentary; rhachis bearded.
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 Asa Gray
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 K. Rangachari
The inflorescence is a spike-like raceme consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicellate spikelets, involucels consist of unequal, simple or branched bristles.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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