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How To Use inflorescence In A Sentence

• As seeds ripened during the course of the experiment, the inflorescences were harvested by clipping the main stalk of each flowering culm just below the lowermost panicle branch.
• What makes these native arums so attractive are the thick spikes of fruits that follow the large white papery inflorescences.
• A plant with an umbelliferous inflorescence is one whose flowers are borne on stalks or pedicels originating from a common node on the main stem.
• Under this head, too, may be included those cases wherein an ordinarily spicate inflorescence becomes paniculate owing to the branching of the axis and the formation of an unwonted number of secondary buds. Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• The floral meristems are formed acropetally and are initiated on the periphery of the inflorescence meristem, being protected by bracts.
• Inflorescences are the terminal toothbrush type, with five to 70 pairs of flowers on a rachis approx. 35-50 mm long.
• The inflorescence consists of spikes, solitary, digitate or fascicled, articulate and fragile; the joints of the floral axis and the pedicels of the pedicelled spikelets are trigonous and hollowed ventrally. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
• Native social bees visit only male inflorescences in search of pollen and nectar.
• Their inflorescences are racemose or cymose, and aggregated in dichasial units.
• The inflorescence consists of spikes, or spiciform racemes, solitary or digitate, and in some it is paniculate. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses