Leaf-sheaths are compressed and distichous below, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs close to the margin.
The leaf-sheaths are distichous and towards the base of the stem are 1/2 inch broad, compressed, keeled and with scattered tubercle-based hairs.
The spikelets are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.
Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichouscavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded.
Stems are stout below withdistichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long.
Portion of a branch of a Lime tree, with four leaves arranged in a distichous manner, or in two rows.
This arrangement often continues during the life of the plant, but at other times it changes, passing into distichousand spiral forms.
Labiate plants have decussate leaves, while Boraginaceae have alternate leaves, and Tiliaceae usually have distichous leaves; Rubiaceae have opposite leaves.
In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows.
He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail.
They have rigid glaucous distichous leaves, and peculiar richly colored flowers.
A genus of evergreen trees, thickly branched, remarkable for the distichous arrangement of their branches, and having scalelike, closely imbricated, or compressed leaves.
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