pedicellate
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A flower having a stalk is called pedunculate or pedicellate; one having no stalk is sessile.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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 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 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
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 K. Rangachari
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