Leaves may be sclerophyllous or coated on the undersurface with appressed hairs to conserve water, and they remain evergreen throughout an extended dry season. ❋ Unknown (2008)
As she watched him stalking around the little house, red with rage, body taut as a watch spring with appressed aggression and his mouth constantly spewing Obscenities, she pictured him in his coffin. ❋ Cole, Martina (1999)
The pods are stout, compressed, slightly curved near the apex, 6 - 11 cm long, 2 cm wide and densely covered with stiff, somewhat appressed, brown, very irritating, stinging hairs. ❋ Unknown (1993)
The flowers are small (though larger than those of many cultivated yams), about 3 mm long, closely appressed to the pedicel in long axillary or terminal racemes. ❋ Unknown (1987)
The _spikelets_ are about 1/16 inch long, ovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate dark or pale green, sometimes purplish, solitary or two to four on long slender pedicels, drooping, never appressed, and with glandular streaks. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Branches with pedicel and spikelets drooping and not appressed. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _second glume_ is greenish, oblong lanceolate, acute, ciliate along the margins and with fine appressed silky hairs between the lateral nerves, ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/16 inch subsessile or pedicelled, always appressed to the rachis solitary in the upper portions of the branches, and two to five on the branchlets in the lower portion, pale, green or rarely copper coloured, oblong or lanceolate, acute or acuminate, caducous or glumes one and two persistent. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The name volva is particularly given to that part of the universal veil which remains around the base of the stem, either sheathing it or appressed closely to it, or in torn fragments. ❋ Caroline A. Burgin (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are small, 1/20 to 1/14 inch, geminate, one short and the other long pedicelled, appressed to the rachis, elliptic, silky with slender crisped hairs, pale green or purplish. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
It often extends beyond the insertion of the terminal flower and its glume, and then lies hidden appressed to the palea. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are linear-lanceolate, solitary or in distant pairs, glabrous or ciliate, pedicelled and when binate the upper pedicel often longer than the spikelets, usually spreading and not appressed to the rachis. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The importance of prolonging the moistened condition as long as possible is further shown by special adaptations to retain water either between the appressed lobes of the leaves or in special pitcher-like sacs. ❋ Various (N/A)
Spikelets are in dissimilar pairs, one globose, sessile and bisexual and the other ovate, pedicelled, neuter with the pedicels adnate to, or closely appressed to the joint of the rachis. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
BUDS -- terminal buds usually 3/8 to 3/4 of an inch long, subglobose to narrowly ovate, with 8-10 imbricate scales, the outermost of which are a blackish brown with dark brown tomentum, and a short mucronate or attenuate apex, inner scales light brown with longer lanate pubescence and apex acute to obtuse; lateral buds smaller, about 1/4 of an inch with tightly appressed scales. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are closely appressed and each one has four _glumes_. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Branches are capillary, stiff and spreading, horizontally verticillate or subverticillate, the lowest whorl consisting of five to sixteen or seventeen branches and the others from three to nine, shining, swollen at the point of insertion and provided with a glandular scar a little above the point of insertion; branchlets are very close, appressed to the rachis of the branch never drooping or spreading, each bearing two to five spikelets. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are oblong, acute, binate, one pedicel being shorter than the other, usually appressed to the rachis and not spreading. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
It is a herb with a rosette of fleshy, oblong leaves, 1 to 3 in. long, appressed to the ground, of a pale colour and with a sticky surface. ❋ Various (N/A)
The _inflorescence_ consists of two racemes, closely appressed together on a very slender peduncle; the joints are shorter than the spikelets and with long brown hairs. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
