distichous
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The spikelets are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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 leaf-blade is flat, linear, distichous, coriaceous, rounded at the tip, margins sparsely ciliate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Stems are stout below with distichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage
