racemose

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Stems 1° high; glabrous or nearly so; heads ½´ high, rather few, racemose or spicate; outer scales lax, foliaceous; rays purple; leaves linear, entire.—Mo. to Tex., thence to Car. and Ga. § 2.

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

General term for any loose and irregular flower-cluster, commonly of the racemose type, with pedicellate flowers.

From Handbook of the Trees of New England by Dame, Lorin Low

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, in racemose panicles of a few flowers each.

From The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by Thomas, Jerome Beers

The spikelets are lanceolate, 2- to 3-nate, in digitate or racemose spikes, jointed on the pedicels but not thickened at the base, 1-flowered.

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