Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In botany, bearing paleæ or chaff; paleaceous: said chiefly or wholly of the receptacle in a capitulum or head.
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Examples
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The fourth glume is chartaceous or sub-chartaceous, usually 3-nerved and paleate; palea is equal to and similar to the fourth glume, 2-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The third glume is hyaline, deeply cleft into two lobes with an awn in the cleft, and 3-nerved, paleate; palea is linear-lanceolate enclosing either stamens and ovary or ovary alone.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is as long as the third, ovate, obtuse, paleate.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is sub-chartaceous, ovate-oblong, paleate, slightly shorter than the third glume, pale brown, smooth.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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Floral glumes narrow or broad, acute, obtuse or minutely 2-toothed and awned, paleate; sterile glumes are small, without palea.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _fourth glume_ is coriaceous, ovate-lanceolate, nearly as long as the second glume, awned at the apex, paleate, with three stamens and an ovary; the _palea_ is as long as the glume, elliptic oblong, obtuse.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The fourth glume is very slender, hyaline, linear, paleate with three stamens or empty.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The fourth glume is as long as the third and the second, oblong or ovate, coriaceous, narrowed into a straight terminal awn, paleate and bisexual; palea is oblong, coriaceous and 2-nerved.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _third glume_ is oblong lanceolate, obtuse, 5-nerved, a little shorter than the second glume, paleate and with stamens; _palea_ is short.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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The _third glume_ is similar to the second, paleate; _palea_ is lanceolate and short.
A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses K. Rangachari
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