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[Precambrian] benthic tracks and trails (but no body fossils) that could not have been made by the sessile or planktonic Ediacaran organisms and have, by consensus of all experts, been regarded as bilaterian in origin.— Evolution News & Views
Spikes are many (fifteen and more), sessile, secund, generally longer than the internodes, and appressed to the rachis, 1/4 to 1-1/2 inches long; the rachis of the spike is angular, edges scaberulous and with very fine short hairs The spikelets are pale, ovoid, acute, biseriate, imbricate, very shortly pedicellate, glabrous, 1/16 to 1/8 inch, pedicels are hairy with a few long hairs towards the base There are four glumes_.— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The pedicelled spikelet is as long as the sessile, inarticulate on the very thick, short pedicel which is densely or sparsely hairy at the base.— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
The spikelets are small, 1-flowered, laterally compressed, sessile, alternately 2-seriate and imbricate on one side of the rachis.— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
Stamens 30-40, sessile, adherent at the base.— The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines

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