The basal leaves can be more than 10 cm long and have three to eleven leaflets along their rachis. |
The bristle and eyelash consist of a rachis void of barbs, except at the innermost base. |
Feathers, however bizarre or morphologically complex, consist essentially of a rachis, barbs, and barbules. |
Affected leaflets abscise from a compound leaf, while leaflets without symptoms remain on the rachis. |
Inflorescences are the terminal toothbrush type, with five to 70 pairs of flowers on a rachis approx. 35-50 mm long. |
Filoplumes have a rachis, with barbs and barbules somewhere along them, and they arise from follicles. |