suberect

The _inflorescence_ is a contracted panicle, 6 to 18 inches long with spreading or suberect, alternate or opposite spikes which are capillary and vary from 2 to 4 inches in length.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _leaf-blade_ is flat, narrow, linear, tapering to a fine point, suberect and rather rigid, glabrous and with a narrow base, varying in length from 3 to 10 inches and 1/8 to 1/3 inch in breadth.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Stems are many, tufted, slender, creeping and rooting, or ascending and suberect, simple or branched, 6 to 20 inches long and leafy and leaves bifarious and divaricate.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _spikes_ are 7 to 10 inches, alternate, pale green or purplish, rather distant, spreading or suberect

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

The _panicle_ is ovate or ovate-oblong, on a short, smooth peduncle, usually open and stiff; branches are usually many, sub-solitary or fascicled, spreading or suberect, capillary, stiff, again branching from near the base and about 3 inches long; _rachis_ is angular, with glands and tufts of sparse white hairs at the angles of branches and branchlets.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

_Spikes_ are from 8 to 20, suberect, usually distant, 1/4 to 1 inch long and getting shorter upwards; the rachis of the spike is stout, angular, scaberulous on the angles with a few long hairs towards the base.

A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari

Sterile catkins 3-4 inches long, slender, purplish-yellow; scales fringed: fertile catkins erect or suberect, sessile or nearly so, 1/2-1 inch long, oblong-cylindrical; bracts pubescent; lateral lobes wider than in _B. lutea.

Handbook of the Trees of New England Lorin Low Dame 1860