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

Spikelets spicate, in pairs, the pedicellate sterile or rudimentary; rhachis bearded.

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 exact summits of all the hills are covered with a coarse spicate Saccharum. 

From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by Griffith, William

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

Spikelets several-flowered, narrow, erect and scattered along the slender rhachis of the long spicate spikes; flowers all perfect or the uppermost staminate.

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