echinate
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The spikelets are arranged in groups of two, facing each other and appearing like a single spikelet with two equal echinate glumes, sessile, or obscurely pedicelled on very short, tumid, pubescent branches.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Trachys.Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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