distichous
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Stems are numerous, stiff and erect, 1/2 to 3 feet in length, glabrous, covered below by brownish or whitish scale-leaves, and above with densely distichous leaves.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The leaf-blade is soft, narrowly linear, finely acute, acuminate or pungent, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously distichous at the base of the stem and, in non-flowering branches, scabrid along the margins.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
The leaf-sheaths are distichous and towards the base of the stem are 1/2 inch broad, compressed, keeled and with scattered tubercle-based hairs.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The cells are distichous, and of a very peculiar form, but varying in some degree according to their situation.
