spicate
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Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William
Antheridia in the ventricose bases of spicate leaves.
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
Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
More hispid and rough, very leafy; leaves rigid, pinnately parted into 3–7 narrowly linear acute divisions, those subtending the densely spicate flowers similar and crowded; corolla over 1´ long.—Prairies,
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
Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan
