distichous
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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
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 Asa Gray
The leaf-sheaths are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy.
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
In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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