trigonous
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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 oblong shining light reddish brown, narrowed at both ends and somewhat trigonous.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
It is very much flattened in Paspalum scrobiculatum, but somewhat trigonous in Digitaria sanguinalis.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The grain is pale, brownish yellow, ellipsoidal-oblong, subacute, trigonous, rough and never smooth, with a shallow groove on the dorsal side; the embryo is about one-third the length of the grain.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Grain is oblong, obtusely trigonous, or concavo-convex, red-brown and rugulose on the ventral side.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
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