distichous
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Stems are stout below with distichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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 Gray, Asa
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.
Stems are numerous, stiff and erect, 1/2 to 3 feet in length, glabrous, covered below by brownish or whitish scale-leaves, and above with densely distichous leaves.
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.
