distichous

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Cotyledons 2 or 3.—Strong-scented evergreen trees, with very small and scale-like or some awl-shaped closely appressed-imbricated leaves, distichous branchlets, and exceedingly durable wood.

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

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.

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 spikelets are usually 2-flowered, smooth, articulate on short peduncles, distichous, 1/3 to 1/2 inch 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.