inflorescence

• Good question, but we should assume that having too many thrips in the inflorescence was maybe damaging the flowers, so that attracting its predators would allow a greater reproductive success, as long as pollination occured. —  Seeds Aside
• Every branch sooner or later terminates in an inflorescence which is a compound raceme. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• But in grasses the unit of the inflorescence is the =spikelet= and not the flower The forms of inflorescence usually met with are the spike, raceme and panicle. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• When the spikelets are sessile or borne directly along an elongated axis as in Enteropogon melicoides the inflorescence is a =spike=. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The inflorescence is a =panicle= when the spikelets are borne on secondary, tertiary or further subdivided branches. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

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