distichous
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The spikelets are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Leaf-sheaths are compressed and distichous below, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs close to the margin.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-sheaths are equal to or longer than the internodes at the base, but shorter above, glabrous, compressed, distichous, bearded towards the mouth and with membranous margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is soft, narrowly linear, finely acute, acuminate or pungent, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously distichous at the base of the stem and, in non-flowering branches, scabrid along the margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
