distichous

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He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail.

From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Sterndale, Robert Armitage

The leaf-sheaths are equal to or longer than the internodes at the base, but shorter above, glabrous, compressed, distichous, bearded towards the mouth and with membranous margins.

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

But on the stem the cells are distichous and wide apart.

From Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by MacGillivray, John

The spikelets are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.

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.