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The spikelets are plano-convex, orbicular to oblong, obtuse, secund, 2-ranked on the flattened or triquetrous rachis of the spike-like branches of a raceme, one-flowered and falling off entire from the very short or obscure pedicels.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _spikelets_ are very small, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets are very minute, one-flowered, half immersed in the alternating distichous cavities of the rachis of the spike; rachilla is bearded.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The sessile spikelets are one-flowered, nearly as long as the internode.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Spikelets are one-flowered, borne unilaterally on the branches, and the base is thickened and jointed on the top of a short pedicel.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Both the glossy pipsissima and the pretty spotted wintergreen, with its variegated leaves, are common here; so is the fragrant shin-leaf; and the one-flowered pyrola, rare in most parts of the country, is also found in our woods.
Rural Hours 1887
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From that underground relationship, the one-flowered broomrape boasts a dainty yellow and purple trumpet-shaped flower.
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Orobanche uniflora, or naked broomrape (or one-flowered broomrape or one-flowered cancer-root), is distributed throughout much of North America north of Mexico with the exception of Manitoba, Labrador, and Canada's central northern territories (the species is also found in Baja California).
Museum Blogs 2009
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Orobanche uniflora, or naked broomrape (or one-flowered broomrape or one-flowered cancer-root), is distributed throughout much of North America north of Mexico with the exception of Manitoba, Labrador, and Canada's central northern territories (the species is also found in Baja California).
Museum Blogs 2009
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(fig. 88), each one-flowered, and each provided with two linear glumes; the outer palea in all cases is three-lobed at the summit, the central lobe being oblong and hollow, forming a kind of hood (figs. 87-89), and covered with hairs, which are directed downwards towards the centre of the plant.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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