mucronate

• The fourth glume is coriaceous, broadly ovate, tip acutely pointed and almost cuspidate or acute, mucronate, white or brownish, reticulately minutely pitted. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The fourth glume is shorter than the third, linear-oblong, mucronate or very shortly awned at the apex, paleate; palea about two-thirds the length of the glume, lanceolate. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The flowering glumes are ovate, mucronate or awned, paleate; palea is shorter than the glume, ovate-oblong, obtuse or 2-fid. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The most important distinctions, however, are found in its scales, which may be 1. entire subsection Cembra fig. 41 2. tuberculate tropicalis, etc fig. 42 3. short-mucronate sylvestris, glabra, etc. fig. 43 4. long-mucronate aristata, contorta, etc. fig. 44 5. spinescent taeda, pungens, etc fig. 45 Illustration: PLATE III. —  The Genus Pinus
• Scales of the conelet mucronate or aristate. —  The Genus Pinus

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