trigonous
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The grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, broadly and shallowly grooved dorsally with concentric minute tubercled ridges covered with a loose pericarp.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence is 1/2 to 3 inches long and consists of fascicles of spikelets; the rachis is trigonous, smooth, and flexuous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Grain is oblong shining light reddish brown, narrowed at both ends and somewhat trigonous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Grain is narrow, trigonous, oblong, translucent and shining.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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