echinate

Echinate, -d, ek′in-āt, -ed, adj. prickly like a hedgehog: set with prickles or bristles.—ns.

Echinate: Beset with pointed prominences.

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.

Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.

Trachys.Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.