glabrescent
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The stem is slender or stout, usually glabrous though occasionally glabrescent or pubescent, channelled on one side, branched from base upwards, and leafy.
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The leaf-sheath is glabrous or glabrescent and sometimes hirsute; margin is ciliate.
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