mucronate

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Leaves evergreen, flat, linear, mucronate, rigid, scattered, appearing more or less 2-ranked.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)

The second glume is twice the size of the first, ovate-oblong, 3-nerved, rarely 3- to 7-nerved, glabrous, shortly mucronate at the acute apex.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

P. dark, with mucronate dark pointed warts; g. running down stem in lines. spissa, Fr.

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George

The fourth glume is coriaceous, broadly ovate, tip acutely pointed and almost cuspidate or acute, mucronate, white or brownish, reticulately minutely pitted.

From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.

Aristate, Awn-pointed, and Bristle-pointed, are terms used when this mucronate point is extended into a longer bristle-form or slender appendage.

From The Elements of Botany For Beginners and For Schools by Gray, Asa