spikelet

Each spikelet is usually light brown to reddish-brown and has a few to over 20 flowers.

Each spikelet has two florets, only one of which is fertile.

The number of grains per spikelet has an associated low heritability value.

The spikelet is a flattened array of seven to nine tiny flowers.

Each spikelet has around ten flowers enclosed in dark bracts.

Each spikelet has an awn up to about 3.5 centimeters long.

Each spikelet is up to 2.5 centimeters in length.

Each spikelet is about half a centimeter long and purplish in color.

Surrounding each spikelet are up to 12 yellow or purple bristles.

The spikelet is under a centimeter long and contains up to 10 tiny flowers.

The fruit of each spikelet is tipped with a bent awn.

The fertile spikelet has an awn up to a centimeter long.

The spikelet is lance-shaped to oval and less than a centimeter long.

The seeds easily break out of the spikelet.

The inflorescence bears a single spikelet, or sometimes up to four spikelets.

Each spikelet is very flat and pointed, the fruits tipped with short awns.

Each spikelet may be up to 5 centimeters long and may contain 20 flowers.

Each pair is made up of one fertile spikelet and one sterile.

The spikelet is spherical to ovate and reddish brown in color.

Each spikelet contains flowers covered by dark reddish brown bracts.

Each spikelet is one or two centimeters long and contains 2 or 3 flowers.

The spikelet is up to 3 centimeters long.

Each spikelet has one bisexual and one or two sterile flowers.

The spikelet is cylindrical or oval and measures up to 0.8 centimeters in length.

It is erect, greyish green in colour and, as the name suggests, usually interrupted, sometimes even reduced to a single spikelet.