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The _leaf-sheath_ is smooth, glabrous, shorter than the internodes, becoming purplish when dry.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The leaf-sheath enclosing the base of the peduncle is rather long, glabrous with a tuft of short hairs at the mouth.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _inflorescence_ is a terminal raceme, 1/2 to 2 inches long, half hidden by the uppermost leaf-sheath, the peduncle is flattened and 1 to
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is thinly pubescent, some hairs being minutely gland-tipped.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is smooth, glabrous, with eciliate margins.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous, shorter than the blade, coriaceous and open above.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The leaf-sheath is attached at its base to the node and it is slightly swollen just above the place of insertion.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is glabrous or glabrescent and sometimes hirsute; margin is ciliate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Roots arise from the nodes just above the insertion of the leaf, and they grow piercing the leaf-sheath.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _leaf-sheath_ is distinctly striate, covered with scattered long tubercle-based hairs, very rarely glabrous, keeled.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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