小梗

Inflorescence a single terminal raceme; raceme hairy, fragile, densely spiculate, the spikelets borne in threes, 2 sessile and 1 pedicelled at each node, sessile and pedicelled spikelets similar, both fertile or pedicelled spikelet male or barren, occasionally lowermost spikelets paired; rachis internodes broadly linear, densely ciliate on margins, shorter than spikelets; pedicel similar but more slender.

花序一名单身顶生总状花序；有毛，脆，浓密细刺的总状花序，小穗生于3，2无梗和1 pedicelled在每节，轴节间的宽线形，在边，短于小穗上浓密纤毛；花梗相似但是更细长。

Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed, 7–7.5 mm; callus ca. 2 mm, acute; lower glume oblong-lanceolate, slightly flattened, densely brown strigose; upper lemma stipitiform; awn 2–4.5 cm. Pedicelled spikelet 12–15 mm.

无梗小穗背压缩，7-7.5毫米；胼胝体约2毫米，锐尖；长圆状披针形的下部的颖片，稍扁平，浓密棕色糙伏毛；上面外稃柄状；芒2-4.5 厘米Pedicelled小穗12-15毫米。

Sessile spikelet dorsally compressed; callus very short, obtuse, shortly bearded; lower glume cartilaginous, broadly convex to slightly concave, flanks rounded, keeled toward apex, apex acute to obtuse; upper glume boat-shaped, dorsally keeled; lower floret reduced to a small empty hyaline lemma; upper lemma stipitiform, entire, awned from apex; awn geniculate, glabrous or puberulous.

背的无梗小穗压扁；胼胝体非常短，钝，短具髯毛；更低的颖片软骨质，对稍凹，侧面圆形，龙骨状的向先端，先端锐尖到钝宽凸；上面颖片舟状，背龙骨状；更低的小花退化至一小的空的透明的外稃；上面外稃柄状，全缘，从那里先端；膝曲的芒，无毛或被微柔毛。

Sessile spikelet subterete; callus long, pungent, bearded; lower glume leathery, obtuse; upper glume awnless; lower floret reduced to a hyaline lemma; upper lemma stipitiform, entire, passing into a stout geniculate awn with hairy column.

无梗小穗近圆柱状；胼胝体长，锐尖，具髯毛；更低的颖片革质，钝；上面颖片awnless；更低的小花退化至一透明的外稃；膝曲的柄状，全缘，度过的上面外稃成为一粗壮具有毛柱状。

Shrubs or small trees, erect; branchlets, petioles, and peduncles rust colored tomentose when young.

灌木或小乔木，直立；小枝，叶柄，并且幼时锈色被绒毛的花序梗。

Sessile spikelet 3.5–4.5 mm, pallid; callus hairs 1/8 spikelet length; lower glume oblong-lanceolate, membranous, back slightly concave, villous except near apex, veinless between keels, upper keels smooth or pectinate-scabrid, apex narrowly truncate or 2-toothed; upper glume apex with 2–2.5 mm awn; upper lemma narrow, 2-toothed in upper 1/4; awn ca.

无梗小穗3.5-4.5毫米，灰白色；胼胝体毛1/8的小穗长度；长圆状披针形的下部的颖片，膜质，背稍凹，除近先端之外的具长柔毛，上面颖片先端具2-2.5毫米芒；在上面1/4里狭窄，2齿状的上面外稃；芒约1厘米，柱子具短缘毛。

Panicle dense, narrowly oblong in outline, 10–22 cm; branches 2–5 cm, branchlets many, short, pilose in axils; racemes 2–4-noded with 7–11 spikelets, disarticulating at maturity, one spikelet of a pair sessile, the other pedicellate; internodes and pedicels 2–2.5 mm, slender with expanded tips, densely ciliate.

紧密的圆锥花序，轮廓的狭长圆形，10-22厘米；分枝2-5厘米，小枝很多，短，具柔毛的在腋处；总状花序2-4有节具7-11小穗，成熟时脱节，一对无梗，其它有花梗一小穗；节间和花梗2-2.5毫米，用被扩大的信息微薄，浓密纤毛。

Pollen cones terminal, solitary or clustered in leaf axils, or borne in spikelike complexes; individual cones pedunculate or sessile; microsporophylls numerous, spirally arranged, with distinct adaxial and abaxial surfaces; microsporangia 2; pollen 2(or 3)-saccate in Chinese species,.

雄球花单个顶生，或者在叶腋簇生，或者形成穗状复合花序；雄球花有花序梗或者无；小孢子叶许多，螺旋状排列，背腹面显著；小孢子囊2个；中国的种类的花粉2 (-3)气囊，。

Areoles with glochids; leaves usually small, terete to subulate, nerveless, caducous; flowers solitary, sessile; ovary inferior; seeds encased in a white, bony aril.

小窠有钩毛叶通常小，圆柱状的到钻形，无力，早落；花单生，无梗；子房下位；种子装箱在一白色，骨质。 2 Opuntia 仙人掌属

Umbels compound, loose to subcompact; peduncles usually short or abortive; bracts and bracteoles absent; rays few, spreading-ascending or spreading; umbellules few-flowered.

复伞状花序，松散到近紧密；通常的花序梗短或败育；苞片和小苞片无；伞辐很少，平展上升的或平展；小伞形花序少数开花。

But we don't care about Battlegrounds.

但我们并不在乎沙场中的显露。

Ah! don't mention it, the butcher's shop is a horror.

啊！不用提了。提到肉，真是糟透了。