trigonous
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It is very much flattened in Paspalum scrobiculatum, but somewhat trigonous in Digitaria sanguinalis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence is 1/2 to 3 inches long and consists of fascicles of spikelets; the rachis is trigonous, smooth, and flexuous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The grain is pale, brownish yellow, ellipsoidal-oblong, subacute, trigonous, rough and never smooth, with a shallow groove on the dorsal side; the embryo is about one-third the length of the grain.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence is of several slender spikes, usually drooping, 2 to 4 inches; the rachis is filiform and trigonous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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