pedicellate
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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 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
Spathes are 1/8 to 1/3 inch long, sessile or pedicellate, green, cymbiform, with subulate tips.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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
General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.
From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Lorin Low Dame
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