rachises
- plural of rachis.
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The female inflorescence is a large globose head consisting of short spikelets articulate at the very base of the rachis, short bracts and very long, spreading, rigid rod-like rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Many species of Andropogon have such jointed rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Sometimes at the base of the rachises, main or secondary, glandular streaks are seen as in the rachises of Sporobolus coromandelianus.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
