spikelets

The _involucral spikelets_ are the longest, in contiguous superposed pairs, about 1/2 inch long, and the rachis of the spike is produced beyond these spikelets.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Very small, individual, simple flowers (florets) are grouped in inflorescences called spikelets, which are subtended by small leaf-like bracts, the glumes.

Grasses 2009

He picked a few stalks and counted the groups of kernels, or spikelets, on each head.

Crop Scouts Stalk North Dakota's Amber Waves of Grain Mark Peters 2011

Whilethe earliest potential fossil grass pollen was described from late Cretaceous sediments, the oldest reliable megafossil grass fossils were spikelets and inflorescences from the latest Paleocene (about 58 mya).

Grasses 2009

Families showed significant variation in shoot mass, number of seeds set in chasmogamous CH spikelets, and mean mass of CL and CH seeds.

Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb 2007

There were highly significant effects of competition on shoot mass and number of seeds matured in cleistogamous CL spikelets.

Altruism: Even Plants Can Do It - The Panda's Thumb 2007

Lady Constantine was thoroughly wearied, and sat down, while he gathered a handful of twigs and spikelets from the masses strewn without and lit a small fire, first taking the precaution to blind the little window and relock the door.

Two on a Tower 2006

Each bur "encloses two to three spikelets within a round, hard, pubescent covering that is armed with 30 to 65 stout spines."

Archive 2006-02-01 Michael Caddell 2006

Each bur "encloses two to three spikelets within a round, hard, pubescent covering that is armed with 30 to 65 stout spines."

Whitehead's Sandbur Michael Caddell 2006

The spikelets from the trees formed a soft carpet over the route, and occasionally a brake of brambles barred the interspaces of the trunks.

Two on a Tower 2006