glume

NOUN
  1. small dry membranous bract found in inflorescences of Gramineae and Cyperaceae
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  • The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The _first glume_ is cuneately obovate or obcordate, yellowish with red brown tips or dark brown with yellow tips, chartaceous below, membranous, hyaline and ciliate at the truncate, emarginate or retuse apex, 7 - to 9-nerved, the nerves abruptly ceasing towards the apex. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The first glume is very small, hyaline, suborbicular, nerveless and truncate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • This prolonged rachilla sometimes bears a minute glume, which is of course rudimentary. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The flowering glume is awned, strongly 5-nerved, nerves scabrid and ciliate, the lateral nerves being marginal. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The first and the second glumes are empty, subequal, narrowly linear with a strong midrib which is produced into a long capillary awn. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The _third_ and _fourth glumes_ are half-amplexicaul, empty, epaleate, flabelliform, 4-lobed, 7-nerved, shortly awned at the back, villous; the side lobes are acuminate or aristate and the central lobes are shortly awned. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • Hairs on the margins and keels of glume III pointed and not clavate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The _fourth glume_ is broadly ovate, or suborbicular, very concave, coriaceous, transversely rugulose, yellowish brown. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
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