mucronate

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Anthers oblong-linear or arrow-shaped, mucronate, inserted in the throat.

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

Cotyledons 2.—Leaves evergreen, flat, mucronate, rigid, scattered, 2-ranked.

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 first two glumes are unequal, narrow, keeled, membranous, 1-nerved, persistent, acute, mucronate and the second glume awned shortly.

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

Involucral bracts mucronate, appressed Blazing Star, Liatris cylindracea. 99a.

From The Plants of Michigan Simple Keys for the Identification of the Native Seed Plants of the State by Gleason, Henry Allan

The fourth glume is shorter than the third, linear-oblong, mucronate or very shortly awned at the apex, paleate; palea about two-thirds the length of the glume, lanceolate.

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