Spikelets

_Spikelets_ are about 1/10 inch, 2-awned, shortly stalked and consist of only four _glumes_.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets are closely imbricating in two series, sessile, solitary, the upper reduced to a small pedicel 1 - to 2-flowered, the lowest few on the spike, imperfect, male or neuter.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets 1 - to 3-flowered, first glume very minute or wanting, second as long as the hyaline, third spike compressed, solitary.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

_Spikelets_ are linear to ovate-oblong, compressed, pale or green, sometimes purple tinged at the base, few to 40-flowered and occasionally up to 70-flowers, 1/8 to 1 inch.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets are obovoid or lanceolate, 1 - to 2-flowered, persistent on their stalks, one to three in an involucel.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets fascicled unilaterally on a broad rachis, 4-glumed, glumes not echinate 13.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets sessile and jointed on the very short densely crowded branchlets of a tall, narrow raceme like panicle, deciduous, acute, much compressed, imbricate and secund 7.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Spikelets are binate, 1-flowered, all alike, both pedicelled, articulate at the base and hidden by the very long silky hairs arising from a small callus and from the glumes.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari