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Plant Image Gallery: Inflorescence Shapes

Contracted Shape
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Contracted/Narrow
  Narrow or dense inflorescences, the branches being appressed or short.
Open Shape
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Open
  Loose, spreading (e.g., inflorescences with few spikelets and long branches).
Images and definitions (Hatch, S.L., J.L. Schuster, and R.L. Drawe. 1999. Grasses of the Texas Gulf Prairies and Marshes. Texas A&M University Press, College Station, Texas 77843).
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