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cespitose

[ses-pi-tohs] / ˈsɛs pɪˌtoʊs /
ADJECTIVE
tufted
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Stamens 3.—Low cespitose annuals; spike often scarcely exserted from the upper sheath.

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

I have never seen it cespitose, never more than two specimens growing near each other.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Differs from the variety of n. 69 chiefly in its more cespitose habit, its densely glaucous-blue covering, very slender culm, and very long and filiform peduncles.

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 cespitose masses are often a foot broad.

From North American Species of Cactus by Coulter, John Merle

Bulbs cespitose, narrowly oblong and crowning a rhizome; coats membranous.

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




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