The _leaf-blade_ is soft, narrowly linear, finely acute, acuminate or pungent, somewhat glaucous, conspicuously distichous at the base of the stem and, in non-flowering branches, scabrid along the margins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
_Leaf-sheaths_ are compressed and distichous below, glabrous or sometimes with a few hairs close to the margin. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _leaf-sheaths_ are equal to or longer than the internodes at the base, but shorter above, glabrous, compressed, distichous, bearded towards the mouth and with membranous margins. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Male spikelets are 1 - to 2-flowered, subsessile, distichous, jointed on rigid peduncled spikes, which are collected in umbels and surrounded by spathaceous leafy bracts. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _leaf-sheaths_ are compressed, distichous, ciliate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
In the yew (_Taxus_) the leaves at the ends of the shoots not unfrequently lose their usual distichous arrangement and become arranged in a close spiral manner, the elongation of the shoot being arrested. ❋ Maxwell T. Masters (N/A)
Stems are stout below with distichous leaves and very slender above, 2 to 3-1/2 feet long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Stems are numerous, stiff and erect, 1/2 to 3 feet in length, glabrous, covered below by brownish or whitish scale-leaves, and above with densely distichous leaves. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Feathers are mostly distichous, hair-partings are distichous, the moustache is distichous. ❋ Douglas English (N/A)
The _leaf-blade_ is flat, linear, distichous, coriaceous, rounded at the tip, margins sparsely ciliate, 1 to 2-1/2 inches long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _leaf-sheaths_ are distichous and towards the base of the stem are ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _leaf-blade_ is narrow linear, pungent, somewhat rigid, flat, distichous, base rounded with or without a few long hairs and varies in length from 1/4 to 1 inch and in breadth from 1/20 to 1/16 inch, but in plants growing in rich moist soils the leaves become longer reaching ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _leaf-sheaths_ are distichous, compressed, glabrous or rarely hairy. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are usually 2-flowered, smooth, articulate on short peduncles, distichous, 1/3 to 1/2 inch long. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
After a careful examination of the organ in nearly all the members of the series, he writes: "I have failed to detect that it is essentially distinctive of them -- that is, that the distichous arrangement of the hairs is always associated with a diminutive species; but at the same time there can be no doubt that it is more prevalent among such." ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
Jerdon's description is "entire head iron-grey; orbits and base of ears deep orange fulvous; whole body above, with parachute and tail, a mixture of blackish and golden yellow; limbs deep orange ochreous; margin of parachute albescent; beneath the neck whitish; rest of the lower parts pale orange-red; tip of tail black; ears nearly nude; tail sub-distichous." ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
He also questions the propriety of the separation according to the distichous arrangement of the hairs of the tail. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
In some the general hue is orange brown with obscure annuli; the arrangement of the hair is distichous or in two rows. ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
