mucronate

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The first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.

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

Leaves thick, ovate, acuminate, acute at base, obscurely mucronate, serrate, finely pubescent, 3 to 4 in. long, one half as wide.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

Nearly smooth; leaflets 8–24, oblong, obtuse, scarcely mucronate; peduncles loosely-flowered; flowers small, more scattered than in the preceding, whitish, the keel tipped with blue; calyx-teeth very short.—River-banks,

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 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.

Involucral leaves 2 or 4, larger than the stem-leaves; perianth 3–4-angled, mucronate.

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