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 K. Rangachari
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 K. Rangachari
Male spikelets are 1- to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
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 Robert Armitage Sterndale
Leaf-sheaths are compressed and distichous below, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs close to the margin.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by K. Rangachari
