Description
Floret Appendages: Awn, Colliculate with hairs and bristles
Floret Colour: OrangeFloret Length: 7 - 10mm
Floret Shape: LancolateSeed Colour: Ivory
Seed Length: 2 - 4mm
Seed Sculpture: RoughenedSeed Shape: Oblong
Floret - Rice (Paddy is a term for rice in it's natural harvested state)
Caryopsis - rice (processed - 'polished')
Basal sterile florets similar; barren; without significant palea. Lemma of lower sterile floret lanceolate; 2–3 mm long; 0.25(–0.5) length of spikelet; membranous; without lateral veins; emarginate. Lemma of upper sterile floret lanceolate; 2–3 mm long; 1 length of lower sterile floret; membranous. Fertile lemma elliptic; laterally compressed; 8–11 mm long; coriaceous; keeled; 5 -veined. Lemma midvein ciliate; hairy above. Lemma surface reticulate; glabrous, or hispid. Lemma margins involute. Lemma apex rostrate; muticous, or awned; 1 -awned. Principal lemma awn 0–160 mm long overall; limb scabrous. Palea elliptic; 1 length of lemma; coriaceous; 3 -veined; 1-keeled. Palea keels scabrous. Palea apex acute.
Caryopsis with adherent pericarp. Disseminule comprising a floret. Source: See Weblinks KEW Royal Botanic Gardens
