"Rachilla" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... may be considered as a specialised branch consisting of a short axis, the rachilla bearing a series of modified bracts, the glumes, the lower pair being empty but the others bearing flowers in their axils. The glumes are two-ranked and imbricating. As a type for the spikelet that of an Eragrostis or Dinebra ...
— A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses • Rai Bahadur K. Ranga Achariyar |
