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used to describe grasses, sedges, and rushes
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Plant Sciences
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10/25/2012

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scabrous
Definition
rough covered, or as if, with scabs
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glabrous
Definition
smooth, hairless
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appressed
Definition
closely flattened down
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pedicel / pedicle
Definition
A stalk of individual flower; a stalk bearing a single flower
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peduncle
Definition
The axis of an inflorescence; the stalk supporting an inflorescence.
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'a spicate inflorescence'
Definition
a spike type of inflorescence; an inflorescence with sessile or subsessile spikelets
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pedicellate spikelets
Definition
flowers that are attached to the main axis (peduncle) by a pedicel
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raceme inflorescence
Definition
a type of inflorescence that is composed of stalked (pedicellate) spikelets arranged along a central axis
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panicle inflorescence
Definition
a type of inflorescence where the main axis branches and the spikelets are borne on pedicels
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rame inflorescence
Definition
a specialized, unbranched type of inflorescence that is often called a raceme; it is characteristic of members of the bluestem tribe; spikelets are generally paired at each node - one sessile and one pedicellate
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