mucro

cone scales shield-shaped, apically grooved, expanded into a rhomboid disc, occasionally with central mucro.

anthers ovate, apex broadly incised, with a short mucro in incision.

ovules numerous. Style glabrous; pistil head with a 2-cleft mucro.

Perennial from a knotty rootstock; spikelets paired; fertile floret with a tiny mucro ca. 0. 1 mm.

Aril pale green or slightly white powdery, with small apical mucro.

20 (19) Leaf apex abruptly narrowed into a long pungent mucro.

lobes short, apex obtuse, emarginate, and without an awn or mucro.

upper lemma lanceolate, midvein produced into mucro or poorly developed short awn.

lobes lanceolate, ca. 0. 5 mm, included, with a mucro between lobes.

Drupes ellipsoidal, 6-11 mm, base with persistent sepals, apex with mucro, 1-celled, stalk usually slender.

Drupe oblong-ovoid, 0. 9-1. 3 cm, 6-9 mm in diam. , flattened, apex with a short mucro, glabrescent, endocarp thin, nearly smooth.

glumes leathery, veins conspicuous, sometimes with a short mucro at apex;

upper glume acute or with a ca. 0. 5 mm mucro;

Drupe black at maturity, globose, 4-6 mm in diam. , with persistent calyx tube at base and minute apical mucro, with 2 or 3 stones;

upper glume with mucro to 0. 5 mm;