mucronate

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Leaves long, 3 to 5 in., rigid, slender, incurved, sharply mucronate, of a dark green color; from short sheaths; 2 together.

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

The leaf-blade is narrowly or rarely broadly linear, obtuse or acute and abruptly mucronate, or narrowly drawn into a point glabrous or pubescent, margins shortly ciliate.

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

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 first two glumes are empty, thin, keeled, and acute or mucronate.

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

Lower glumes persistent, membranaceous, folded-carinate, subtruncate, mucronate or short-awned; flowering glume hyaline, shorter, truncate.

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