Geniculately bent abruptly so as to resemble a knee-joint, [118]. Geminate in pairs, [59]. Germ-sheath a sheath enclosing the bud or the plumule in a grain, [18]. Gibbous convex or rounded, [77]. Glabrescent slightly hairy but becoming glabrous, [89]. Glabrous quite smooth without hairs, [89]. Glaucous covered with a bloom, [160]. Glume the chaffy two-ranked members found in the inflorescence of grasses.
H
Hirsute covered with fairly long distinct hairs, [90]. Hyaline colourless or translucent, [51].
I
Imbricate overlapping, [49]. Internode portion of a stem between two nodes, [2]. Intravaginal growing out from inside the sheath. Involucel a ring of bracts surrounding several spikelets, [120].
K
Keeled having a ridge along the length, [59].
L
Lemma the flowering glume of a grass, [15]. Ligule the thin, scarious projection found at the top of the leaf sheath where it joins the blade in grasses, [3]. Lodicule a small scale outside the stamens in the flower of grasses.
M