spicate

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Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.

From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Webster, Angus Duncan

Flowers unisexual, racemose, spicate or capitate; calyx becoming fleshy or juicy in fruit.

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 yellow flowers are produced on spicate racemes, while the leaves are alternate, smooth and spear-shaped.

From Our Flowering Shrubs and how to know them by Anonymous

Globose; leaves broad 97 Perigynium nearly linear, beakless 96 Perigynium long, spindle-shaped 1 Spikes several or numerous, sessile, spicate or capitate; stigmas 2.

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 spikelets are all unisexual, spicate, the male and female spikelets are dissimilar, and are on the same or on different spikes.

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