mucronate
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Flower mostly hairy at base, the glume mucronate or awned.
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
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 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.
The flowering glumes are ovate, mucronate or awned, paleate; palea is shorter than the glume, ovate-oblong, obtuse or 2-fid.
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
