distichous

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Cotyledons 2 or 3.—Strong-scented evergreen trees, with very small and scale-like or some awl-shaped closely appressed-imbricated leaves, distichous branchlets, and exceedingly durable wood.

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

Stems are stout below with distichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long.

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

The leaf-sheaths are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy.

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

The cells are distichous, and of a very peculiar form, but varying in some degree according to their situation.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

The leaf-sheaths are distichous and towards the base of the stem are 1/2 inch broad, compressed, keeled and with scattered tubercle-based hairs.

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