Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In natural history, of a shape between obovate and oblong.
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The _first glume_ is ovate or obovate-oblong, dorsally flat or nearly so, with a deep narrow-longitudinal median furrow usually below the middle and answering to a ridge on the ventral face, obtuse or
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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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 K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is obovate-oblong or oblong, hyaline, ciliate, nerveless.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _first glume_ is somewhat chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse or truncate, 7 - to 11-nerved, margin slightly folded, keel shortly rigidly ciliate towards the apex, and thinly ciliate below, dorsal surfaces sparsely hairy below the middle.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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