rachis
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Each leaflet may have its own stalk, but is attached to the rachis.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
In all modern feathers, the central shaft or rachis is a hollow tube.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2018
“The thickness of the rachis in some specimens is 3 microns thick. That’s less than the size of the average cell,” O’Connor says.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2018
The finding suggests that the barbs and barbules evolved before the rachis in feathers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
Using my HB pencil, I work to sketch out the barbs of the feather, drawing lines from the rachis outward.
From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam
The inflorescence is a spike-like panicle, with very short filiform inarticulate branches and rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
The female inflorescence is a large globose head consisting of short spikelets articulate at the very base of the rachis, short bracts and very long, spreading, rigid rod-like rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Many species of Andropogon have such jointed rachises.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
Sometimes at the base of the rachises, main or secondary, glandular streaks are seen as in the rachises of Sporobolus coromandelianus.
From A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses by Rangachari, K.
