spicate

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Heads spicate or racemose, the involucre well imbricated.

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

Spikelets binate below and 3-nate at the top on a spicate or panicled inflorescence 28.

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

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

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

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 Gray, Asa