distichous

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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.

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 spikelets are usually 2-flowered, smooth, articulate on short peduncles, distichous, 1/3 to 1/2 inch 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.

Male spikelets are 1- to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.

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