spicate

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Antheridia oval, 2–3 in the axils 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

Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

The spikelets are all unisexual, spicate, the male and female spikelets are dissimilar, and are on the same or on different spikes.

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

Spikelets in pairs, spicate, all alike fertile, involucrate with a silky tuft.

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

Aquatic or marsh herbs; flowers perfect or polygamo-diœcious, small, axillary or spicate; petals often none.

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