racemose
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Thus we may have a group of racemes, arranged in a racemose manner on a common axis, forming a raceme of racemes or compound raceme, as in Astilbe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
Flowers axillary, racemose, with a scale at the base of the peduncle, some hermaphrodite and others lacking pistils.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Flowers.—White; two lines across; in terminal racemose panicles.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Flowers monœcious; staminate white and racemose; pistillate solitary, growing at the base of the staminate racemes.
From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Jerome Beers Thomas
Slender, strict and simple, with few or several racemose or terminal heads, like those of the last; leaves lanceolate or linear, the lower usually long and narrow.—S. W. Va., and southward.
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 Asa Gray
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