pikelets's Usage Examples:

The small flowers or spikelets are borne in pairs on the ultimate branches of a much branched feathery plume-like terminal grey inflorescence, 2 ft.

Hilum a point; spikelets not laterally compressed.

The minute flowers are arranged in spikelets somewhat as in grasses, and these again in larger spike-like or panicled inflorescences.

All the flowers of each triplet of spikelets on both sides of the rachis are fertile and produce ripe fruits; hence the ear produces six longitudinal rows of grain.

The central fruits of each triplet form two regular rows, but the lateral spikelets form not four straight single rows as in (ii.

The species of Heteropogon, a cosmopolitan genus in the warmer parts of the world, have strongly awned spikelets.

Elionurus, a widespread savanna grass in tropical and subtropical America, and also in the tropics of the old world, is rejected by cattle probably on account of its aromatic character, the spikelets having a strong balsam-like smell.

Spikelets bisexual, or male and bisexual, each male standing close to a bisexual.

In the spicate forms, with sessile spikelets on the main axis, the latter is often dilated and flattened (Paspalum), or is more or less thickened and hollowed out (Stenotaphrum, Rottboellia, Tripsacum), when the spikelets are sunk and buried within the cavities.

a Spikelets upon distinct pedicels and arranged in panicles or racemes.

pratense (Avena flavescens) with a loose panicle and yellow shining spikelets is a valuable foddergrass.

In the sugar-cane (Saccharum) and several allied genera the separating joints of the axis bear long hairs below the spikelets; in others, as in Arundo (a reed-grass), the flowering glumes are enveloped in long hairs.

Spikelets unisexual, male and female in separate inflorescences or on different parts of the same inflorescence.