A spikelet, in botany, describes the typical arrangement of the inflorescences of grasses, sedges and some other monocots. Each spikelet has one or more...
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The Law of Spikelets or Law of Three Spikelets (Russian: Закон о трёх колосках, Закон о пяти колосках, Закон семь-восемь) was a decree in the Soviet Union...
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A foxtail is a spikelet or cluster of a grass, that serves to disperse its seeds as a unit. Thus, the foxtail is a type of diaspore or plant dispersal...
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Malabar nut (Justicia adhatoda) and chaff flowers (genus Achyranthes). A spikelet can refer to a small spike, although it primarily refers to the ultimate...
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domesticated in the Fertile Crescent around 9000 BC, giving it nonshattering spikelets and making it much easier to harvest. Its use then spread throughout Eurasia...
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dictionary. Foxtail or fox tail may refer to: Foxtail (diaspore), the dry spikelet or spikelet cluster of some grasses Alopecurus, foxtail grasses - the scientific...
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In botany, a glume is a bract (leaf-like structure) below a spikelet in the inflorescence (flower cluster) of grasses (Poaceae) or the flowers of sedges...
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contains pairs of spikelets. Each pair has a stalked spikelet with another stalkless spikelet at the base of the stalk. The stalkless spikelet usually has a...
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Technically, the inflorescence unit in a grass is the spikelet, but the arrangement of spikelets may be described as a panicle. "In the form of a panicle"...
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Festuca subverticillata (section Glumes and spikelets)
side in flowering time. Each branch has several stalked spikelets arranged on the tip. Spikelets are 5 to 8 millimetres long, having 2 to 5 florets being...
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photosynthesis, as, for example, in barley. The awns of wild emmer-wheat spikelets effectively self-cultivate by propelling themselves mechanically into...
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which arises from the last internode on the stem. There can be up to 350 spikelets in a panicle, each containing male and female flower parts (anthers and...
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et al. (2009). "The Domestication Process and Domestication Rate in Rice: Spikelet bases from the Lower Yangtze" (PDF). Science. 323 (5921): 1607–1610. Bibcode:2009Sci...
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Semiarundinaria densiflora (redirect from Short spikelet bamboo)
Semiarundinaria densiflora, the short-spiked bamboo, short-tassled bamboo, or short spikelet bamboo, is a species of bamboos. The species is sometimes placed in the...
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bearing rows of spikelets. Each spikelet is a flat fruit with a rough, bristly lemma without an awn, and no glumes. Some of the spikelet branches develop...
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verification] The inflorescence is unbranched, with spikelets on alternating sides edgeways-on to the stem. Each spikelet has only a single glume, on the side away...
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Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out....
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that divides the rachis into short segments, each attached to a single spikelet (which contains 2–3 grains along with chaff). A different class of shattering...
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pogon (πώγων, 'beard') "which mean [that] in most species, the hairy spikelets project from boat-shaped spathes." Lemongrass and its oil are believed...
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inflorescence consisting of two spike-like racemes containing multiple tiny spikelets, each about 2.8–3.5 millimetres (0.11–0.14 in) long. This grass is low-growing...
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any outgrowths of tissue Sclerite, hardened body parts of invertebrates Spikelet, the inflorescence of grasses Stylet (anatomy), a piercing structure Tubercle...
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inflorescence is an arrangement of consecutive single-spikelet nodes which break apart when dry. Each spikelet has an awn up to 2.5 centimeters long which curves...
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centimetres tall. The inflorescence is a cluster of many linear-shaped spikelets up to 3 centimetres long each. A few long, leaf-like bracts grow at the...
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summer to early fall, producing branched clusters (panicles) of spikelets. The spikelets are golden-brown during the blooming period, and each contain one...
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ukazniks (people sentenced for violation of various ukases, e.g. Law of Spikelets, decree about work discipline, etc.), occasional violators of criminal...
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arranged in spikelets, each having one or more florets.: 12 The spikelets are further grouped into panicles or spikes. The part of the spikelet that bears...
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75–6 in) long and 6.4–12.7 mm (0.25–0.5 in) broad, with densely packed spikelets. It flowers from June until September. The stamen are pink. The ligule...
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illustration Oat spikelets, containing the small wind-pollinated flowers Panicle with spikelets containing seeds 1 A. sterilis, 2 A. sativa, spikelet and base...
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and "escanda menor" in Spanish. The name refers to the fact that each spikelet contains only one grain. Einkorn wheat was one of the first plants to be...
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(female) stigmas protrude outside the glumes. The flowers are grouped into spikelets, each with between two and six flowers. Each fertilised carpel develops...
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