Zoom out, and we see that feathers have a central shaft called the rachis with two vanes on either side. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The spikelets are unilaterally biseriate on the rachis which is not jointed at the base. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The rachis of the inflorescence is usually cylindrical. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The main rachis of the inflorescence is usually jointed at the base. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikelets binate and all round the rachis, 3-glumed, glumes echinate 14. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The spikes are slender, erect or spreading with fine winged glabrous rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The spikelets are one sessile and one pedicelled and imbricating on the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The rachis of the spike is angular, with scattered tubercle-based bristly hairs. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Inflorescences consist of spiciform racemes with spathaceous bracts; rachis is jointed. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
It was not practicable to examine the arrangement of the vascular bundles in the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
D. Joints of rachis and pedicels of upper spikelets slender and tips obliquely truncate. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
= -- In the previous section the effect of elongation of the main rachis has been considered. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
Each spikelet is solitary, and articulate at the very base of a rachis, lanceolate, 1-flowered. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Each raceme has an axis, called the = rachis =, which bears unilaterally two rows of bud-like bodies. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The male spikelets are 2 - to 3-nate at each node of the rachis, 1 sessile and 1 or 2 pedicelled, lanceolate and. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The spikelets are all similar, in compound racemes or panicles; the first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
DD. Joints of rachis and pedicels of upper spikelets clavate or trumpet-shaped and tips cupular with toothed margins. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The name = rachis = is given to the axis of the spike, raceme and panicle, whether the axis is the main one or of the branch. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
Spikelets many, dissimilar, in solitary, digitate or fascicled racemes or spikes; first glume not sunk in the hollow of the rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
In very many grasses the rachis is continuous, but in a few cases it consists of internodes or joints which disarticulate at maturity. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The rachis of the spike is very slender, angular, flexuous, narrower than the spikelets, scaberulous with a few long cilia at the angles. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The first glume is thick, coriaceous and closely embraces the rachis of the spike by its involute margin and the other glumes are within. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The two pedicels are flat, prolonged from one side of the rounded rachis, oblong linear, truncate with a few long hairs along the margin. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
The inflorescences are spike-like racemes, consisting of involucellate clusters of shortly pedicelled spikelets jointed on a simple rachis. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses] Reference
In some fresh specimens which I have lately examined I find the structure to be as follows: -- On each notch of the rachis there are three spikelets. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
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