spicate
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Antheridia large, pedicelled, solitary in the axils of 2-cleft spicate leaves.
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 Asa Gray
Spikelets in pairs, spicate, all alike fertile, involucrate with a silky tuft.
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 Asa Gray
Antheridia oval, 2–3 in the axils of spicate leaves.
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 Asa Gray
Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
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 K. Rangachari
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