spicate
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In Grasses, as indeed in other plants with a spicate inflorescence, this change occurs not unfrequently.
From Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants by Maxwell T. Masters
Flowers white in spicate, thyrsoid racemes, and produced rather sparsely.
From Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs by Angus Duncan Webster
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
Many flowers from the axil of a bract; no bractioles interspersed, hence we may expect racemose or spicate partial inflorescences.
From Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries by William Griffith
Antheridia in the ventricose bases 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
