inflorescence

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Inflorescence is a term commonly applied to the mode of flowering—i.e. to the arrangement of blossoms on the stem and their relative positions to one another.

From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Parsons, Mary Elizabeth

Inflorescence cylindric, continuous and not interrupted, with six to twelve bristles in the involucel 1.

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

Inflorescence a dense spiked panicle, or apparently a cylindrical spike.—Annuals, in cultivated or manured grounds, with linear or lanceolate flat leaves.

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

Inflorescence is either a raceme of spikes or, a lax or contracted panicle.

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

Inflorescence, in our species, of terminal and axillary clusters, the lower clusters usually peduncled.

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