distichous
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The leaf-blade is flat, linear, distichous, coriaceous, rounded at the tip, margins sparsely ciliate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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.
The leaf-sheaths are distichous and towards the base of the stem are 1/2 inch broad, compressed, keeled and with scattered tubercle-based hairs.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous.
From "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character by English, Douglas
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 Sterndale, Robert Armitage
