obovate

• The third glume is the largest, obliquely ovate, or obovate-oblong, cuspidately acuminate, rigidly coriaceous, 9- to many-nerved, paleate or not, empty. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The third glume is oblong-obovate, hyaline, thin, paleate with three yellow anthers and two oblong-cuneate lodicules_; palea is narrow, oblong, obtuse. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The first glume is large, broadly obovate or obcordate, cuneate, villous with brown hairs, 7- to 9-nerved. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The first glume is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7- to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• The grain is oblong-obovate, slightly transparent The pedicelled spikelets are slightly narrower than the sessile, generally not pitted (though pitted in some plants), and not awned, and each one consists of three glumes only; the pedicel is more than half as long as the sessile spikelets. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms