distichous

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Stems are numerous, stiff and erect, 1/2 to 3 feet in length, glabrous, covered below by brownish or whitish scale-leaves, and above with densely distichous leaves.

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

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.

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.

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.

In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage