spathiform

The _inflorescence_ consists of paniculate spike-like racemes terminating the branches and at first enclosed in spathiform bracts, the lower and outer spathiform bracts are one inch or more in length with a long awn at the tip, and the inner proper sheaths are oblong, awned and about 1/2 inch long.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _spikes_ are solitary, axillary and terminal and 1/4 to 1 inch, the peduncles of the spikes are often confluent in a leafy spathiform panicle; the rachis is fragile with short joints deeply excavate on one side.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The inflorescence consists of racemes or panicles of fascicled spikes in the axils of spathiform bracts.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _inflorescence_ consists of simple spikes, each in a spathiform bract, and forming clusters terminating the stem and the branches.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _spikes_ are solitary, 1 to 1-3/4 inch long exserted far above the small spathiform leaf-sheaths, peduncles are capillary and scaberulous, pedicels and joints are somewhat flattened, and have along both the narrow margins long, white, ascending hairs; callus is short with a ring of short white hairs.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Peduncle of racemes not enclosed in spathiform leaf-sheath.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

C. Peduncle of racemes enclosed in spathiform leaf-sheaths.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-sheaths_ are shorter than the internodes, flat, compressed, glabrous, with a few hairs or not at the mouth and with membranous margins; the uppermost sheath is spathiform enclosing the inflorescence when young.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The inflorescence is a leafy panicle of many small spikes enclosed in spathiform bracts.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari