In botany, certain leaves are described as chartaceous. They're usually not green. From LearnThat.org.
The solitary flowering glume is chartaceous, awnless, 3 - to. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The third glume is chartaceous to sub-coriaceous and paleate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Page 301: with a minute mucro, sub-chartaceous, puncticulate, strongly. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is chartaceous and the others are thin and gradually smaller. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is chartaceous, equal in length to the second, oblong or lanceolate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is coriaceous or chartaceous, dorsally compressed, with incurved margins, usually 2-keeled. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is chartaceous, linear oblong, many-nerved, shortly bifid at the apex, longer than the other glumes. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first and the second glumes are nearly equal, rather chartaceous. linear-oblong, acute or acuminate, many-nerved. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The second glume is as long as the first, linear, dorsally chartaceous, with broadly incurved membranous margins, 3-nerved. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The second glume is chartaceous, minute, oblong, 1-nerved immersed in the cavity of the first glume and closing the opening. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The spikelet nearly always consists of four glumes, the first or the first and the second being firmer and coriaceous or chartaceous. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The fourth glume is chartaceous or sub-chartaceous, usually 3-nerved and paleate; palea is equal to and similar to the fourth glume, 2-nerved. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The second glume is oblong or oblong-lanceolate, apiculate, chartaceous, 3-nerved and with a perfect flower; palea is as long as the glume, 2-nerved. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
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