The bisexual (or female) spikelets are smaller than the involucrant spikelets, linear-oblong, subterete, obtuse with a rigidly bearded callus. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _first glume_ is coriaceous, linear-oblong, strongly compressed above and with a few stiff short bristles beneath the tip. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The first and the second glumes are nearly equal, rather chartaceous. linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, many-nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _bisexual or (female) spikelets_ are linear-oblong, obtuse, and the callus with reddish hairs. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _third glume_ is as long as the first, hyaline, thin, linear-oblong, nerveless, ciliate at the apex, paleate, usually with two stamens or empty; _palea_ as long as the glume, hyaline and nerveless. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _first glume_ is 1/5 inch long or less, oblong or linear-oblong, cartilaginous below the middle, with two to four (or rarely up to six) marginal nodules on each edge, sometimes these are connected by shallow ridges, thinner above the middle, with green anastomosing veins, tip obtuse or 2-toothed, and margins narrowly incurved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _first glume_ is narrow, linear-oblong, truncate or rounded, somewhat brown, many-nerved, hispid, with incurved margins and membranous tip. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Fronds one to two feet long, linear-oblong or lanceolate, pinnate, acute. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
The _third glume_ is oblong or linear-oblong, hyaline, apex rounded, ciliate and faintly 2-nerved. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are ovate-oblong or linear-oblong, pale or purplish 1/6 to 1/2 inch, up to 50-flowered, rachilla is tough with very short internodes. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _spikelets_ are linear-oblong, glabrous or villous, 1/8 to 1/4 inch long, sessile and stalked spikelets close together; the pedicel of the stalked spikelet is thick about 1/3 or less than the length of the sessile spikelet, ciliate on one side, confluent with the thick callus of the sessile spikelet, which is sparsely bristly. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _third glume_ is shorter than the second, finely acuminate, or awned, 7-nerved, membranous, paleate and with three _stamens_ and two _lodicules_; the _palea_ is shorter than the glume, linear-oblong, subacute. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
Spikelets less compressed, linear or linear-oblong; lateral nerves less prominent; not fascicled, long pedicellate and divaricate when ripe. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _third glume_ is thin, membranous, shorter than the second glume, linear-oblong, subobtuse or acute at the tip and nerveless. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _third glume_ is hyaline, linear-oblong, glabrous and thinly ciliate at the tip or not with or without stamens. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _fourth glume_ is shorter than the third, linear-oblong, mucronate or very shortly awned at the apex, paleate; _palea_ about two-thirds the length of the glume, lanceolate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The lower pinnæ pinnately parted into three to five divisions, those of the fertile fronds oblong or linear-oblong; those of the sterile, obovate or ovate, crenulate, decurrent at the base. ❋ George Henry Tilton (N/A)
The leaves are ¼in. long, aggregate or in miniature rosettes; in shape, linear-oblong, recurved, and keeled. ❋ John Wood (N/A)
Floral _glumes_ also are small but slightly longer than the empty ones, ovate-oblong, obtuse and paleate, palea is linear-oblong with smooth or scabrid keels. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
The _third glume_ is hyaline, linear-oblong, 2-nerved ciliate. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)
