mucronate

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Sepals 5, scarcely concave, indistinctly mucronate on the back, greenish.

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 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 alternate, deciduous, abruptly once-pinnate; leaflets mucronate; stipules usually spinescent.

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

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

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

From European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae by Massee, George