Planting unit

SpikeletSpikelet:
One or more florets that are subtended by a pair of bracts called glumes. Spikelets are pedicellate if located on a pedicle and sessile if attached directly to the rachis. Often spikelets with single florets have remnants of a second floret, usually a lemma.

Shape

ObovateObovate:
Inverted egg shaped with apical end the broadest.

Size

• Length 3.5–4 mm
• Width 0.5–1 mm
• Thickness 0.5–1 mm

Color

Brown

Texture

Smooth

Lemma

Beneath glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.

Palea

Beneath glumesGlume:
The pair of chaffy bracts that occur at the base of a grass spikelet, often completely enclosing it.

Other structures

Rachis segmentRachis segment:
A segment of the central axis of the inflorescence (rachis). In some species (e.g. Andropogon) separation of the sessile spikelets occurs when the rachis disarticulates at the spikelet bases leaving the segment of the rachis between spikelets attached to the lower spikelet.
and pedicelPedicel:
The stalk within an inflorescence supporting a single flower or spikelet.
are present.

Family

Poaceae

Valid name

Saccharum officinarum L.