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Lower glumes persistent, membranaceous, folded-carinate, subtruncate, mucronate or short-awned; flowering glume hyaline, shorter, truncate.

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

The ends are truncate or subtruncate; the capsule is small as compared with the swim-ring and as a rule circular or nearly so.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The majority of the free statoblasts are elongate and truncate or subtruncate at the extremities, the sides being as a rule straight and parallel.

From Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Annandale, Nelson

The first glume is very short about 1/4 of the third or less, semilunar, membranous, hyaline, subtruncate, obtuse or acute, generally nerveless, but rarely, obscurely 1- to 3-nerved.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.